BRIDGTON – Capping recent land donations to Pondicherry Park is a seven-acre parcel from Marti Flint of Ellsworth, Jim Flint of Biddeford and Paula Lowell of Bridgton.

The gift brings the downtown park to 56 acres, most of which is bordered generally by Willet Brook, Church and South High streets and Willet Road.

The Lakes Environmental Association and Loon Echo Land Trust are cooperating on the project. Peter Lowell, executive director of the LEA, said the organizations may seek to acquire more land.

According to the land trust’s Web site, the park will be available for low-impact recreation, education and study.

Lowell said the park will be accessible from five different points, four of which will have parking available. It will have about two miles of trails when completed, as well as access bridges to link the trails to the Stevens Brook Trail and downtown bridges.

“We have marked most of the trails,” Lowell said. “The park is usable, but people should stop in at the LEA to get a trail map.”

Once work on the park is completed, the land trust will place a conservation easement on the land and donate it to the town.

The organizations have raised $408,000 for the project, and are seeking a total of $609,000. Fundraising began in June of 2006 when the town made an initial contribution through the Moose Pond Land Trust fund.

The money will go toward trail design and engineering, the construction of the bridges and an educational kiosk, an endowment to maintain the park, and trails creation.

Lowell said the organizations hope to complete the park in 2009.