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Water Testing Results — 19 August 2013

Town of Hopkinton, MA — Public Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES 2013

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 29, 2013 and clos­es August 18, 2013. It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1) No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date Left side of Beach CFU/100ml Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

June 24 <10 <10 10

July 1 10 0 30

July 8 11 MPN 3.1 MPN 18 MPN

July 15 9 MPN 13.0 MPN 15 MPN

July 22 3.0 MPN 8.0 MPN 8.0 MPN

July 29 15.0 MPN 14.0 MPN 161 MPN

Aug 5 5.0 MPN 4.0 MPN 7.0 MPN

Aug 12 6.0 MPN 9.0 MPN 30.0 MPN

Beach closed for the season

Aug 19 6.0 MPN 10.0 MPN 3.0 MPN

Aug 26

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 18, 2013 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 66 ⁰F, = +2.3 ◦ Fͦ month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inch­es, 12.11, + 8.42 inch­es for the month

July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 74.1 ⁰F, + 4.4⁰F for the month(3rd warmest July on record) and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was 3.09 inch­es, -.55 inch­es for the month

August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F for the month, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

7/10/13

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

Cost of pro­gram 2012 12 weeks (3 sam­ples $60.00) $720.00

Sam­pling and sam­ple deliv­ery 12 ($35.14/2 hrs) $843.00

Mileage $286.33 Total $1, 849.34

 

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Water Testing Results — 12 August 2013

Town of Hopkinton, MA — Public Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES 2013

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 29, 2013 and clos­es August 18, 2013. It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1) No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date Left side of Beach CFU/100ml Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

June 24 <10 <10 10

July 1 10 0 30

July 8 11 MPN 3.1 MPN 18 MPN

July 15 9 MPN 13.0 MPN 15 MPN

July 22 3.0 MPN 8.0 MPN 8.0 MPN

July 29 15.0 MPN 14.0 MPN 161 MPN

Aug 5 5.0 MPN 4.0 MPN 7.0 MPN

Aug 12 6.0 MPN 9.0 MPN 30.0 MPN

Aug 19

Aug 26

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 18, 2013 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 66 ⁰F, = +2.3 ◦ Fͦ month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inch­es, 12.11, + 8.42 inch­es for the month

July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 74.1 ⁰F, + 4.4⁰F for the month(3rd warmest July on record) and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was 3.09 inch­es, -.55 inch­es for the month

August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F for the month, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

7/10/13

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

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Meeting Minutes — 19 June 2013

Lake Maspenock Preservation Association

Executive Board Meeting Minutes

JUNE 19, 2013

Start time: 7:27 pm

In atten­dance:

Mal­colm, Frank, Mike, Pat­ty, Bri­an, Drew, Rick

1. Review and vote to accept min­utes from May 20th meeting.

Post meet­ing min­utes to web­site after board approval

Motion: Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Mike

Unan­i­mous

2. Treasurer’s Report – Trea­sur­er (Tina) not present at meet­ing to present figures

3. Fund raising

Mike – no progress, sta­tus quo

Mike wants to talk to Lou about EMC, will talk to Price Chop­per (Cor­po­rate)

Sug­ges­tion to check with Price Chop­per to see if we can sell T‑Shirts/Hats/Sweatshirts/Towels at the store, Mike to look into this

4. Update on Sandy Beach work, Buoys?

Beach open­ing – June

Beach house sched­uled to be con­struct­ed ear­ly July (sub modular)

Scope has not changed but progress is slow

Bri­an has resigned from Park and Rec

5. Dam Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee (Update Mike, Mark, Frank)

Mike has not heard any­thing regard­ing first meet­ing from Nor­man (Town Manager)’s office. Mike to call Jaime Gonzalvez

6. Let­ter to EMC

Dave Gibbs called Dan Fitzger­ald, he got no response

7. Boat Parade, 7/4, 2:00 pm – Notice sent out, send out fol­low-up notice?

Fol­low up notice was sent on June 29th by Tina to membership

8. Dunkin’ Donuts Petition?

Jen sent a note to Mal­colm from a res­i­dent, they want us to spon­sor NOT sup­port­ing the new Dunkin’ Donuts on West Main Street to be built. Not some­thing that the Lake Asso­ci­a­tion would spon­sor or sup­port, we sup­port envi­ron­men­tal and lake issues. The phys­i­cal loca­tion is out­side of our area of inter­est thus not con­sis­tent with our Mission.

9. New Business

Extend­ed Draw Down –

What paper­work needs to be in place for the Lake Asso­ci­a­tion to hold the extend­ed draw down this year, new weeds are ter­ri­ble on North side of the lake

The cur­rent agree­ment is every three years, we would have to go back to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mit­tee with a new Notice of Intent to accel­er­ate the date to this year. Mal­colm will research, talk to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mit­tee and get nec­es­sary paper­work in order.

Fish­ing Tour­na­ment – Sep­tem­ber 14th is pro­posed, every­one seemed to be good with that date, more plan­ning dis­cussed at next meeting

10. Next meeting?

Mon­day, August 5th – 7:00 pm – 6 Downey Street (Tina’s)

11. Motion for adjournment

Motion: Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Patty

Unan­i­mous

End time: 8:24 pm

 

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Water Testing Results — 5 August 2013

Town of Hopkinton, MA — Public Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES 2013

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 29, 2013 and clos­es August 18, 2013. It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1) No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date Left side of Beach CFU/100ml Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

June 24 <10 <10 10

July 1 10 0 30

July 8 11 MPN 3.1 MPN 18 MPN

July 15 9 MPN 13.0 MPN 15 MPN

July 22 3.0 MPN 8.0 MPN 8.0 MPN

July 29 15.0 MPN 14.0 MPN 161 MPN

Aug 5 5.0 MPN 4.0 MPN 7.0 MPN

Aug 12

Aug 19

Aug 26

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 18, 2013 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 66 ⁰F, = +2.3 ◦ Fͦ month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inch­es, 12.11, + 8.42 inch­es for the month July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F, + ⁰F for the month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was____ inch­es, for the month August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F for the month, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

7/10/13

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

Cost of pro­gram 2012 12 weeks (3 sam­ples $60.00) $720.00

Sam­pling and sam­ple deliv­ery 12 ($35.14/2 hrs) $843.00

Mileage $286.33 Total $1, 849.34

 

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Water Testing Results — 22 July 2013

Town of Hopkinton, MA — Public Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES 2013

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 29, 2013 and clos­es August 18, 2013. It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1) No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date Left side of Beach CFU/100ml Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

June 24 <10 <10 10

July 1 10 0 30

July 8 11 MPN 3.1 MPN 18 MPN

July 15 9 MPN 13.0 MPN 15 MPN

July 22 3.0 MPN 8.0 MPN 8.0 MPN

July 29

Aug 5

Aug 12

Aug 19

Aug 26

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 18, 2013 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 66 ⁰F, = +2.3 ◦ Fͦ month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inch­es, 12.11, + 8.42 inch­es for the month July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F, + ⁰F for the month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was____ inch­es, for the month August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F for the month, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

7/10/13

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

Cost of pro­gram 2012 12 weeks (3 sam­ples $60.00) $720.00

Sam­pling and sam­ple deliv­ery 12 ($35.14/2 hrs) $843.00

Mileage $286.33 Total $1, 849.34

 

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Meeting Minutes — 20 May 2013

 

Lake Maspenock Preservation Association

ANNUAL MEETING MINUTES

MAY 20, 2013

 

Quarum of 22 vot­ing mem­bers attend­ed the meeting.

Meet­ing start time: 7:15 pm

 

1. Exec­u­tive Board – Vote to accept the min­utes from the last E‑Board Meet­ing held April 8, 2013

Motion: Mal­colm Page

Sec­ond: Mike Riley

Unan­i­mous

 

2. Treasurer’s Report

$1,785 in accounts

Con­tin­ue fund rais­ing efforts, get mem­ber­ship involved

Pat­ty to com­plete brochure once offi­cers are elect­ed and mail­ing to go out to mem­ber­ship. Some mem­bers and E‑Board Mem­bers to go door-to-door with the new brochure once com­plet­ed and printed.

 

3. Elec­tions:

-Trea­sur­er – 3 year term

Tina Mac­Connell continuing

Motion – Mal­colm Page

Sec­ond – Bri­an Eberlin

Unan­i­mous – Tina re-elected

 

-Exec­u­tive #1 — 2 years remain­ing on a 3 year term

Bill Casey – resigning

Rick O’Dell — nominated

Motion: Mal­colm Page

Sec­ond: Bri­an Eberlin

Unan­i­mous – Rick elected

 

-Exec­u­tive #3 — 3 year term

Mike Riley continuing

Motion: Mal­colm Page

Sec­ond: Bri­an Eberlin

Unan­i­mous – Mike re-elected

 

-Exec­u­tive #4 — 3 year term

Mark Sex­ton continuing

Motion: Mal­colm Page

Sec­ond: Pat­ty Holland

Unan­i­mous – Mark re-elected

 

4. Safe Boat­ing Course held again in April at the Fire Station.

22 peo­ple attend­ed, very suc­cess­ful. Will offer to mem­ber­ship again next year

 

5. Draw Down and Weed Con­trol – Bio­log­i­cal Sur­vey com­plet­ed after 2011/2012’s more exten­sive draw down. Find­ings are pub­lished on the web­site. New type of weed has been found in the lake, but the mil­foil prob­lem seems to have lessened.

 

6. Dam Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee – formed

Mem­bers from E‑Board: Mike Riley, Mark Sex­ton, Frank Holland

Mem­ber­ship mem­bers: Dave Gibbs

Goal is to pri­or­i­tize and use town resources

Remove brush, exam­ine leak­age and spill­way through vol­un­teer efforts

Meet­ings should start soon

 

7. Updates on Sandy Beach Renovation

Bri­an updat­ed mem­bers – Project has begun, Beach house is tak­en down

Park and Rec has $500,000 approved for improvements

Plans of ren­o­va­tions: New Bath House, Entrance Way, Under­ground Wiring

They plan to be com­plet­ed close to the timeline

 

8. EMC Land: Seek­ing to meet with EMC

The goal of meet­ing with EMC is to get them to agree to place restric­tions on the land they own around the lake which would per­ma­nent­ly pro­tect all or most of the land. Mal­colm to check with the Plan­ning Board and update mem­ber­ship as appropriate.

 

9. Water Test­ing – 3 times per year, in three loca­tions on the lake

Results are post­ed to the Web­Site and to Face­book page

 

10. Oth­er Business

Put buoys at Sandy Beach out ear­ly. Ear­ly sea­son swim­mers swim in boat chan­nel and its dangerous.

 

Water­shed View – pro­posed by Car­ol Esler to the mem­ber­ship, she request­ed help with her cause from mem­bers in attendance

 

Post to Web­Site and Face­book Page regard­ing golf balls being hit into the Lake.

 

 

11. Motion for Adjourn­ment – Mal­colm Page

Sec­ond: Pat­ty Holland

Meet­ing adjourned – 8:40 pm

 

NEXT LMPA E‑BOARD MEETING TO BE DETERMINED AT A LATER DATE

 

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Water Testing Results — 15 July 2013

Town of Hopkinton, MA — Public Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES 2013

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 29, 2013 and clos­es August 18, 2013. It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1) No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date Left side of Beach CFU/100ml Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

June 24 <10 <10 10

July 1 10 0 30

July 8 11 MPN 3.1 MPN 18 MPN

July 15 9 MPN 13.0 MPN 15 MPN

July 22

July 29

Aug 5

Aug 12

Aug 19

Aug 26

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 18, 2013 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 66 ⁰F, = +2.3 ◦ Fͦ month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inch­es, 12.11, + 8.42 inch­es for the month July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F, + ⁰F for the month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was____ inch­es, for the month August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F for the month, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

7/10/13

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of pro­gram 2012 12 weeks (3 sam­ples $60.00) $720.00

Sam­pling and sam­ple deliv­ery 12 ($35.14/2 hrs) $843.00

Mileage $286.33 Total $1, 849.34

 

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Water Testing Results — 8 July 2013

Town of Hopkinton, MA — Public Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES 2013

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 29, 2013 and clos­es August 18, 2013. It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1) No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date Left side of Beach CFU/100ml Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

June 24 <10 <10 10

July 1 10 0 30

July 8 11 MPN 3.1 MPN 18 MPN

July 15

July 22

July 29

Aug 5

Aug 12

Aug 19

Aug 26

 

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 18, 2013 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 66 ⁰F, = +2.3 ◦ Fͦ month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inch­es, 12.11, + 8.42 inch­es for the month July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F, + ⁰F for the month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was____ inch­es, for the month August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F for the month, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

 

7/10/13

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

 

Cost of pro­gram 2012 12 weeks (3 sam­ples $60.00) $720.00

Sam­pling and sam­ple deliv­ery 12 ($35.14/2 hrs) $843.00

Mileage $286.33 Total $1, 849.34