Committee supports grant for second pond at Kewaunee's Winter Park Pond to be use for raising walleyes By Kevin Boneske For The News-Chronicle The Kewaunee County Promotions & Recreation Committee on Monday backed an offer from the state Department of Natural Resources to construct a second pond at Winter Park with grant money. DNR fisheries supervisor Michael Toneys appeared at the committee meeting to describe how $50,000 in available grant money could be applied to build a pond and associated well for raising walleye fry for stocking. Toneys said the existing pond this year was used for the first time to grow about 40,000 fry into one-and-a-half-inch fingerlings, of which about 12,000 survived. He noted a second pond, covering approximately a half acre, could be built near and be similar in size to the existing pond. The well would maintain the pond, Toneys said, while electrical work and water lines would be installed to operate the pond, which would hold the walleye being grown from about midspring to midsummer. While the pond could be constructed deep enough to hold trout, Toneys said the pond wouldn't being able to hold the fish year-round. Once approved, Toneys said work on the well could begin as soon as one could be drilled, with the hope the pond could be in place by next spring. He estimated it would cost around $3,000 to build the well, with pond construction being in the neighborhood of $20,000. While the existing pond is used in the winter for snowmaking operations at the Winter Park tubing hill, Promotions & Recreation director Mark Kanz said one possible use being considered for a second pond is for a ice skating. As a result, he noted a new pond wouldn't be used for making snow, in order not to alter the water level when ice forms. Kanz said locating a second pond east of the existing pond wouldn't affect current uses at Winter Park, but rather would enhance the area. "I don't see too many negatives with this proposal," he said. Kanz said the committee's report in favor of accepting the grant to build the second pond would be forwarded to the full county board for its meeting next Tuesday.