Eagle Scout project restores Ijams' Plaza Pond

Eagle Scout Clifford Stallworth

Ijams would like to thank Eagle Scout Clifford Stallworth.

For his Eagle Scout Service Project, Stallworth of Troop-6 Boy Scouts of America, Knoxville, raised funds to rent a $250 pump to remove silt from the Plaza Pond in front of the Ijams' Visitor Center.

Stowers Equipment rental Company donated the $200 rental of intake and discharge hose for the project. 

They deepened the pond and removed vegetation to maintain the site as a viable pond and keeping it from evolving into a plant-filled swamp. 

Local scouts—first the Girl then the Boy Scouts—began coming to Ijams to fulfill their badge requirements in 1923. That's 90 years ago!

- Story by Ed Yost. Photos by Alan Easley and Stephen Lyn Bales

Troop 6 and volunteers

And a week and replenishing rain later, a pond reborn!