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SAVE THE DATES!!!

We have a few events com­ing up in June and July that we would like you to “Save the Date” and attend if you can.

Please refer to our new tab — EVENTS — for updat­ed infor­ma­tion as it becomes available.

  •  LMPA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING  2016 — Mon­day, June 13th — loca­tion to be deter­mined, stay tuned!
  • 2016 4th OF JULY BOAT PARADE — Mon­day, July 4th (rain date, Sun­day July 3rd) — more details to come!
  • INAUGURAL CORN HOLE TOURNAMENT AND FUNDRAISER — Sat­ur­day, July 30th -
    please see infor­ma­tion in EVENTS tab for fur­ther details

 

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Town Meeting Announcement — 2016

 Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Web­site: www.lmpa.org         Email: lmpa.org@verizon.net

April 30, 2016

To: Lake Area Residents

As many of you know, Hopkinton’s Annu­al Town Meet­ing takes place Mon­day, May 2nd at 7:00, in the Hop­kin­ton Mid­dle School audi­to­ri­um.  There will be an item con­cern­ing fund­ing for the con­trol of exces­sive aquat­ic weeds at Lake Maspenock in the bud­get.  The “Lake Maspenock Weed Man­age­ment and Con­trol Advi­so­ry Group”, formed at the direc­tion of the Hop­kin­ton Select­men, has been thor­ough­ly eval­u­at­ing this issue over the last 7 or 8 months.  A pro­fes­sion­al con­sul­tant, with exten­sive lake man­age­ment knowl­edge, was hired by the town to assist and advise the town com­mit­tee.  The pur­pose of the Town’s Advi­so­ry Group is to iden­ti­fy the type and scope of the prob­lem and eval­u­ate ALL avail­able meth­ods of con­trol­ling the exces­sive weed growth.  Each method of weed con­trol is being rat­ed in terms of safe­ty, effec­tive­ness, cost and fea­si­bil­i­ty.  The goal of the Group is to cre­ate a long-term plan for man­ag­ing the lake.  No rec­om­men­da­tions have been made yet, and it is antic­i­pat­ed that their eval­u­a­tion will not be ready until late sum­mer or ear­ly fall.  At that time the Group’s rec­om­men­da­tions will be pre­sent­ed to the pub­lic and Select­men.  The Select­men will make any deci­sions con­cern­ing the Group’s find­ings and they will con­trol if, when, and how any funds are spent.  The pub­lic will have oppor­tu­ni­ties to ask ques­tions and pro­vide input pri­or to any final deci­sions being made.  It is impor­tant that the request­ed funds, includ­ed in the bud­get for the com­ing year, be avail­able to imple­ment the weed con­trol method or meth­ods ulti­mate­ly approved by the Selectmen.

The Lake Maspenock Exec­u­tive Board sup­ports the Weed Con­trol Advi­so­ry Group and believes they are per­form­ing an exten­sive eval­u­a­tion of the prob­lem and the options avail­able to solve it.  It is clear that what­ev­er rec­om­men­da­tion is ulti­mate­ly made by the Group to the town will have been objec­tive­ly arrived at.  The LMPA Exec­u­tive Board urges all to attend Town Meet­ing to sup­port the fund­ing request­ed for the con­trol of the exces­sive aquat­ic weed growth.  If addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion is desired, please go to LMPA.org and select the link to the “Aquat­ic Veg­e­ta­tion Advi­so­ry Group”.

It is antic­i­pat­ed that the top­ic will come up ear­ly on in the meet­ing so please be on time.

 

Thank you,

 

The Offi­cers and Exec­u­tive Board

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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BALD EAGLE NESTING — NEED HELP TRACKING!

Bald Eagle Nesting


There are now more eagles nest­ing in Mass­a­chu­setts than any time in the recent past, and we need your help keep­ing track of them! Please report eagle sight­ings to Andrew Vitz (MassWildlife’s State Ornithol­o­gist,andrew.vitz@state.ma.us). Many of our nest­ing eagles are band­ed with cod­ed-col­or bands that iden­ti­fy the indi­vid­ual, so make sure to look for these leg bands when­ev­er you see or pho­to­graph an eagle. We are par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in get­ting reports of birds car­ry­ing sticks. When there is evi­dence of a new breed­ing ter­ri­to­ry, our staff ver­i­fies the report as they mon­i­tor known nests. Mass­Wildlife will con­duct its Spring Eagle Sur­vey on Fri­day, April 8. The Sur­vey con­sists of coor­di­nat­ed teams of staff and vol­un­teers who spread out across the state to check on his­toric nest sites and look for new nests.

 http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dfg/dfw/education-events/masswildlife-news/masswildlife-monthly-march-2016.html

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Public Forums to Discuss Comprehensive Weed Management and Control Plan

The Hop­kin­ton DPW, Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion, Parks & Rec. Dept., in con­cert with the Advi­so­ry Group, will spon­sor two Pub­lic Forums for Hop­kin­ton res­i­dents on Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 9, 2016 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 27, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  Forum loca­tion for both meet­ings to be at Hop­kin­ton Town Hall, Room 215.

A for­mal Com­pre­hen­sive Weed Man­age­ment and Con­trol Plan will be devel­oped for con­trol and mon­i­tor­ing of nox­ious and inva­sive weed prob­lems spe­cif­ic to Lake Maspenock.   Hop­kin­ton res­i­dents are urged to par­tic­i­pate in the Pub­lic Forums and the online Sur­vey on the Town’s web­site in order to pro­vide feed­back, ask ques­tions and increase their aware­ness about ben­e­fits and eco­log­i­cal impact from pro­posed meth­ods of weed man­age­ment.  Town wide pub­lic under­stand­ing and sup­port of the Plan is crit­i­cal at Town Meet­ing for approval and financ­ing of the Weed Con­trol Plan.

Online Sur­vey:

http://kwiksurveys.com/s/I5qy2QZO

Upcom­ing Advi­so­ry Group Meet­ings, Pub­lic Forums and addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion will be post­ed in Town Hall and on the Town web­site; http://www.hopkintonma.gov/home/government/towncalendar

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Boating Safety Class — March 12th and March 19th, 2016

Below is the link to sign up for the boat­ing safe­ty class which will be held on March 12 & 19, 8:30 am — 12:30 pm each day.  You must attend both days to get cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.   Please keep in mind that this class is open to the gen­er­al pub­lic and fills up quickly.
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Executive Board Meeting Minutes — January 11, 2016

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Web­site: www.lmpa.org         Email: lmpa.org@verizon.net

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

Jan­u­ary 11, 2016

Start time:  7:05 pm

Atten­dance:  Mal­colm, Drew, Tina, Pat­ty, Matt, Jaime

 

  1. Treasurer’s report-

Reg­u­lar account:  $2,006.40

Weed fund:  $5,008.13

Both checks were cashed from Spin­del Island

 

  1. Draw down –Re-fill to nor­mal win­ter draw down lev­els should start this week

Should start 1/15, wait­ing for deep freeze.  John W. try­ing to get exten­sion from Con. Comm.

  1. LMPA weed committee

It was decid­ed that we would not pur­sue an LMPA Weed Com­mit­tee at this time, due to the Town Spon­sored com­mit­tee work­ing on the issues.

  1. Town weed advi­so­ry committee – 

The com­mit­tee met Thurs­day, 1/7.  Good meet­ing.  Sched­ul­ing two pub­lic meet­ing for town input

            One at town hall – Feb­ru­ary 9th proposed

            One at Senior Cen­ter – Feb­ru­ary 27th proposed

All meth­ods will be discussed.

There was a speak­er from Dud­ley Pond, talked about what they did (stud­ies, her­bi­cides, mechan­i­cal har­vest­ing, etc)

Need to vet all alter­na­tives and get feedback

The com­mit­tee will put togeth­er a sur­vey and pub­lish on Town Website

We can pub­li­cize on our Web­site and FB page as well

 

Mass­Dep water qual­i­ty Sum­mit Feb­ru­ary 5th

 

  1. Arti­cle in Metrow­est paper, Novem­ber 15th con­cern­ing Com­mu­ni­ty Preser­va­tion Com­mit­tee fund­ing – Mon­ey to install boat ramp at Sandy Beach?

Boat ramp was dam­aged by some­one tak­ing out their boat, a truck got stuck and had to be towed.  Dam­ages some of the con­crete blocks.

Mal­colm to con­tact Eric Son­net about why this is necessary.

 

  1. Boat­ing safe­ty course – Need to find a location

Tina to check with Rick O’Dell about Rod & Gun Club space

Jaime to check with FCCC church for space

 

  1. Win­ter Social – Sat­ur­day, 1/23

Food so far (meat­balls, buf­fa­lo chick­en dip, asparagus/prochuitto/shrimp/calzones) 

Pat­ty to adver­tise on web­site and FB

Bring sweat­shirts, etc to par­ty to sell

 

  1. New Busi­ness

Be aware of bur­glary off of Dineen Road

Keep your eyes open for your neighbors.

  1. Next meet­ing?

Time:  Tues­day, FEBRUARY 2nd

Place:  Tina’s

  1. Motion for adjournment –
    1. Mal­colm
    2. Sec­ond – Patty

End time:  8:30 pm