Dickinson Dike gets a face lift Dickinson Press
Townsperson fishing spot, the Dickinson Dike, has gotten a minor face lift and officials develop to restock the water with more fish next spring.
Points along the dike, where anglers fish and hikers can balance on benches, were deteriorating and several groups, including the Southwest Anglers Association, North Dakota Fake and Fish Department, the city of Dickinson and Dakota West Resource Conservation and Development Board, are teaming up to fix the area.
“The whole thing was literally just falling away,” said Jared Andrist, Dakota West RC&D coordinator.
In any way from a harsh winter, erosion caused large rocks on the points to fall away and consequence, water seeped behind the erosion blanket used to keep the dirt in its formation.
The seepage caused the points to angle and balloon out, diminishing the shoreline, Andrist said.
After the dike’s water level was lowered, Ken Stoppleworth and Kevin Frederick of Stoppleworth & Sons, Inc., reformed the points and placed new chafing blanket around the points.
