After years of delays, the Chilmark Pond Foundation is finally dredging Chilmark Lower Pond this month in an attempt to improve the pond's water quality. 

Chilmark Pond has a new helper to monitor and preserve the approximately 200-acre waterbody that has been plagued by toxic bacteria blooms for the last several years. 

The Chilmark Pond Foundation received approvals last week to place an ultrasonic buoy in the pond in an effort to beat back cyanobacteria blooms from forming.