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Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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

PLEASE JOIN THE LMPA AND YOUR FELLOW LMPA MEMBERS FOR

The Annu­al Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion Gen­er­al Meeting

MONDAY, JUNE  13, 2016

7:00 PM

KO Sushi and Grill Restau­rant – UPSTAIRS
Hay­ward Street, Hopkinton

The Annu­al Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion Gen­er­al meet­ing will be held on Mon­day, June 13, 2016.  The meet­ing will be at KO Sushi and Grill, Hay­ward Street, Hop­kin­ton.  Please go direct­ly upstairs for the meet­ing, we will be pro­vid­ing appe­tiz­ers and there will be wait­ress ser­vice as well.   Please try to attend and be on time for the meet­ing so that we have ade­quate num­bers to con­duct asso­ci­a­tion busi­ness. A min­i­mum quo­rum of 20 mem­bers is required.

There are three open posi­tions on the Board that we will be vot­ing on:

Trea­sur­er – cur­rent­ly held by Tina Mac­Connell – Tina would like to continue

Exec­u­tive #3 – cur­rent­ly held by Mark Sexton

Exec­u­tive #4 – cur­rent­ly held by Mike Riley – Mike would like to continue

 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 2^nd 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

Reminder, the LMPA Spring Social is Sat­ur­day, March 12, 2016 at the Woodville Rod and Gun Club.

Hope to see you there!!

WEED love to see you at the

LMPA WINTER WEEDSICLE SOCIAL

Sat­ur­day, MARCH 12, 2016
7:00 p.m. — 10:00 pm

Woodville Rod & Gun Club
252 Wood Street, Hopkinton

Excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet new neigh­bors and socialize!!
*Adult-only func­tion for LMPA members*

*Hearty Appe­tiz­ers and Cash Bar*

*Con­tri­bu­tions to the Dessert Table are welcome*

*4^th of July Boat Parade Tro­phy to be awarded!*

*50/50 Raf­fle*

Please feel free to bring non-mem­bers who
are inter­est­ed in join­ing the LMPA, mem­ber­ship renew­al is avail­able as well

To the Lake Mem­ber­ship and All Res­i­dents of Hop­kin­ton, Upton and Milford:

The most recent bio­log­i­cal sur­vey of the lake notes an increase in one native species, the large leaf pond weed. It has increased dra­mat­i­cal­ly over the past few years, and has become a sig­nif­i­cant problem.

After much dis­cus­sion among the exec­u­tive board and the mem­ber­ship, the weed con­trol strat­e­gy will take par­al­lel paths mov­ing for­ward. We will con­tin­ue to attempt a suc­cess­ful extend­ed draw­down which requires lit­tle cost and effort com­pared to alter­na­tive meth­ods of weed con­trol. In par­al­lel, we are form­ing a new sub­com­mit­tee, which will focus on one main mission.…to fig­ure out the best meth­ods to con­vey research and infor­ma­tion that has been gath­ered by the LMPA and the new­ly formed Town Weed Advi­so­ry Board to all of the res­i­dents of Hop­kin­ton. We want to recruit peo­ple from all over town to be on this sub­com­mit­tee, as well as any­one with a vest­ed inter­est in the lake.

The Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion will hold a mem­ber­ship meet­ing on Mon­day, June 22, 2015 at 6:30 PM. The loca­tion of the meet­ing is Sandy Beach. In case of rain, the meet­ing will be moved to Tues­day, 6/23, the same time and place. An email will be sent out to noti­fy the mem­ber­ship of any postponement.