Outside, rectangular rearing ponds cover much of the Sterett Creek valley, along with two wastewater control ponds and a 10-acre lake to hold recirculated water.
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The state DNR has no interest in stocking the lake or using it as a rearing pond due to its insufficient size and difficulty of access.
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Five fish rearing ponds were created from 1936 to 1937 to the east of the lake on bought by the State Board of Conservation in 1935.
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The rearing ponds is named the Lewis Emery Park and in the civil war was used to train Union soldiers . http : / / www . hillsdalehistoricalsociety . org / lewis-emery/
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He returned to The Mill of Strachan in 2008, where he built a home, restored the fish rearing ponds, the dams, and has been managing the rainbow trout fishery for the lochs at the Mill.