General

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5th Annual Cornhole Tournament

The 5th Annu­al, social­ly-dis­tanced, LMPA Corn­hole Tour­na­ment for 2020 sched­uled to be held on August 1st is can­celled.  Thank you to the teams that reg­is­tered and to the vol­un­teers and host hous­es for their work in cre­at­ing a for­mat with safe­ty in mind for both all par­tic­i­pants and vol­un­teers.  We all hope that by next sum­mer one of our favorite and most pop­u­lar events of the year will bring us all togeth­er again to cel­e­brate our com­mu­ni­ty and com­pete again in fun around the lake as in years past. 

Thank you for your understanding,The Exec­u­tive Board of the LMPA

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Boat Parade 2020

Check out the Pho­to Gallery tab for this year’s Lake Maspenock 13th Annu­al Boat Parade pictures!!!

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Sweeney fam­i­ly with their win­ning entry of The Flintstones!!!

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Volunteers Needed ASAP!!!

The wel­com­ing warm sum­mer weath­er is upon us and as you prob­a­bly noticed there has been an extra­or­di­nar­i­ly high vol­ume of boat traf­fic on the lake as well as vis­i­tors to Sandy Beach. Parks & Rec will be offi­cial­ly open­ing Sandy Beach and the boat ramp this Thurs­day, July 2 and as such the area will be staffed by life­guards at the beach and gate guards at the entrance of the beach and boat ramp. They will fol­low the Governor’s guide­lines for the oper­a­tion of beach­es dur­ing the pan­dem­ic which will include restrict­ing access and ensur­ing appro­pri­ate dis­tanc­ing. Details may be found on our web­site at www.lmpa.org

As we reviewed at our Annu­al Meet­ing ear­li­er this month, the LMPA has had ongo­ing dia­logue with Hop­kin­ton Parks & Rec, Hop­kin­ton Police and Hop­kin­ton Fire to ensure safe­ty con­tin­ues to be a top pri­or­i­ty at Sandy Beach and Lake Maspenock. For exam­ple, new and improved sig­nage for Sandy Beach will be arriv­ing soon.

In order to assist with these safe­ty efforts, we are announc­ing a Com­mu­ni­ty Mon­i­tor­ing Pro­gram for vol­un­teers to assist at Sandy Beach and the boat ramp. We would ask you to con­sid­er vol­un­teer­ing for a two hour block of time (9–11am, 11am-1pm, 1–3pm, 3–5pm) on July 4, 5, 11 or 12 to join the teenage gate guards to mon­i­tor the boat ramp. Reg­u­la­tions for the launch­ing of boats will be made avail­able to you and this will assist the young gate guards by hav­ing an adult with them for the first cou­ple week­ends of staffing.

The sec­ond oppor­tu­ni­ty for vol­un­teerism is as Beach Safe­ty Ambas­sador. We are look­ing for vol­un­teers to stop by the beach after­hours and pro­vide a safe­ty hand­out to any­one still on the beach after the close.

You can vol­un­teer for either or both of these oppor­tu­ni­ties by con­tact­ing LMPA Board Mem­ber, Matt DeMar­zo at mjdemarzo@verizon.net, and let­ting him know which day and time you could help at the boat ramp and/or which evening you can vol­un­teer as a beach safe­ty ambassador.

Thanks in advance for giv­ing some of your time to help with these new ini­tia­tives as they should help ensure a safe and enjoy­able sum­mer for all!


The Exec­u­tives and Board Mem­bers of the Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association


The mis­sion of the Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion, to pre­serve and pro­tect the lake envi­ron­ment, can only be met with the involve­ment of peo­ple like you and we great­ly appre­ci­ate your support.

Please renew your LMPA mem­ber­ship! Not a past mem­ber? Please join and par­tic­i­pate in our activ­i­ties with your friends and neigh­bors!!
WWW.LMPA.ORG

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Summer 2020 — Boat Launch Permit for Sandy Beach

Friend­ly reminder from HOPKINTON PARKS & RECREATION DEPT.

Boat Launch Per­mit for Sandy Beach for trail­ers that will be parked for sev­er­al hours or for the day. This does not per­tain to lake res­i­dents putting their boat in for the sea­son or tak­ing it in or out for repairs/maintenance.

Boat trail­ers MUST be reg­is­tered for use of the boat ramp between Memo­r­i­al Day and August 29, 2020.

Please mail a copy of your driver’s license and trail­er reg­is­tra­tion along with $50 check to Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Dept. with a self-addressed stamped enve­lope to:
Parks and Recre­ation Dept.
85 Main St. Hop­kin­ton MA 01748.

Please note that there are ONLY 4 trail­er park­ing spots and there is NO street parking.

*Any vehi­cle with­out a per­mit or park­ing out­side the allot­ted spots will be tick­et­ed by the Hop­kin­ton Police Dept.*

For addi­tion­al info; www.hopkintonma.myrec.com under Parks & Recre­ation, Reg­is­ter, Pro­grams, Sandy Beach Permits.

Please remem­ber to thor­ough­ly clean your boat and trail­er before and after enter­ing the lake. It’s the law!


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Annual LMPA General Meeting — Virtual — June 1st

Tonight’s Annu­al LMPA Gen­er­al Meet­ing will take place via Zoom. If you are a mem­ber, and would like to join tonight’s meet­ing, please email lmpa.org@verizon.net to get log in information.

The meet­ing starts at 7:00 pm. Please be patient as we are tak­ing extra secu­ri­ty pre­cau­tions by admit­ting mem­bers into the meet­ing. Once logged in, you will be in a wait­ing area until grant­ed access to the meet­ing once it is con­firmed you are an LMPA member.

Active paid mem­bers will be vot­ing on open posi­tions this evening via polls. The fol­low­ing can­di­dates have expressed inter­est for these posi­tions (list­ed alphabetically):

Vice Pres­i­dent:
Scott Col­well
Jaime Goncalves (seek­ing re-elec­tion)

Sec­re­tary:
John Coutin­ho
Sharon Shep­ard

Exec­u­tive Board Posi­tion #5:
Scott Col­well
John Coutin­ho
Dar­lene Hayes
Sharon Shep­ard
Cathy Sweeney


Thank you for your con­tin­ued sup­port of the LMPA, hope to see you tonight!

The Exec­u­tive Board of the LMPA

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New State Guidelines — 2020 — Sandy Beach

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Notice from Parks and Recreation:

At present, in accor­dance with the Com­mon­wealth’s guid­ance, res­i­dents are per­mit­ted to walk the access road to the beach, social­ly dis­tanced and with a mask if social dis­tanc­ing can­not be per­formed. Res­i­dents can walk the beach (tran­si­to­ry activ­i­ty only).

Beach­es are per­mit­ted to open for more activ­i­ties in Phase 1, on or after May 25, 2020. The Com­mon­wealth pro­vid­ed the fol­low­ing guid­ance on the open­ing. See link above.

The beach will not be staffed with life guards until late June, the exact date is yet to be deter­mined. Bath­rooms will not be unlocked and water test­ing will not be con­duct­ed until the beach is staffed. Swim at your own risk.

Thank you,

The Exec­u­tive Board of the LMPA

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LMPA Upcoming Events Update

Dear LMPA Mem­bers,

It cer­tain­ly is a unique time for all of us and we hope every­one is stay­ing healthy and safe.   As we move into May and get ready for sum­mer on the lake we do so with a lev­el of uncer­tain­ty that we have nev­er felt before.  It appears that lim­i­ta­tions on gath­er­ings will be eas­ing soon but what that looks like remains unknown.  

With this in mind, we want­ed to share our cur­rent think­ing on the upcom­ing sum­mer and LMPA events on the lake:    

·        We have decid­ed to con­tin­ue with the LMPA Annu­al Meet­ing of the Mem­ber­ship on June 1 at 7:00 pm but we will be doing so vir­tu­al­ly via Zoom.   Please reach out to lmpa.org@verizon.net for log in infor­ma­tion.

·        Impor­tant­ly, we have elec­tions for the Exec­u­tive Board at the Annu­al Meet­ing.   We have two posi­tions open this year.   Sec­re­tary (replac­ing Pat­ty Hol­land) and Gen­er­al Exec­u­tive Board Mem­ber (replac­ing Denise Voto­la­to).    If you are inter­est­ed in one of these posi­tions, please send an email to lmpa.org@verizon.net.    Can­di­dates will have an oppor­tu­ni­ty dur­ing the Zoom call to say a few words if you’d like or if you can­not attend the Zoom call, please include a brief para­graph with your email about why you are inter­est­ed and why you would be a good Exec­u­tive Board mem­ber.    We will be able to vote dur­ing the meet­ing using the Zoom appli­ca­tion.   We know of sev­er­al inter­est­ed indi­vid­u­als so we look for­ward to wel­com­ing two new mem­bers to the board with fresh ideas and ener­gy!  

·        Light up the Lake was a huge suc­cess last year and we have decid­ed to hold this event again this year and move it up to Memo­r­i­al Day week­end start­ing on Fri­day, May 22.   Just like last year, let’s all work to light up our homes and boats with cre­ative light­ing and get out on the water at dusk to enjoy the fes­tive atmos­phere around the lake.

·        The Spring Fling has been can­celled and will not be resched­uled this year.

·        We are plan­ning to hold the annu­al 4th of July Boat Parade so start work­ing on your boat decorations.

·        For the Annu­al LMPA Corn­hole Tour­na­ment, we will wait and see what the guid­ance is for gath­er­ings.  We would like to find a way to hold the tour­na­ment but we may need to make adjust­ments in terms of size and/or tim­ing.   We will keep you post­ed.

·        The sta­tus of open­ing Sandy Beach and the boat ramp is under review by Hop­kin­ton Parks & Rec.  We are in reg­u­lar com­mu­ni­ca­tion with Parks & Rec and will keep you posted.We look for­ward to see­ing every­one at our very first Vir­tu­al Annu­al Meet­ing on June 1!

Thank you and stay safe, 

The LMPA E Board 


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State of the Lake 2019

Dear LMPA Cur­rent, Past and Future Members,

We are pleased to pro­vide the annu­al “State of the Lake” update for the mem­ber­ship. 2019 was anoth­er busy year for the LMPA. We con­tin­ued to work close­ly with the Lake Maspenock Aquat­ic Veg­e­ta­tion Con­trol Cit­i­zens Input Group (CIG), appoint­ed by the Town of Hop­kin­ton Board of Select­men in 2015, who reports to the Direc­tor of the Depart­ment of Pub­lic Works (DPW). The CIG works with a Cer­ti­fied Lake Man­ag­er (Con­sul­tant) and con­cerned cit­i­zens to cre­ate a com­pre­hen­sive man­age­ment, con­trol and mon­i­tor­ing plan for our lake (The Plan). The Plan can be found on the LMPA web­site at www.lmpa.org.

In keep­ing with The Plan, two exten­sive weed sur­veys were con­duct­ed in the spring and fall by the CIG and LMPA vol­un­teers. By late sum­mer sub­stan­tial weed growth, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the north basin, was con­firmed by the Fall sur­vey. Every three years, the lake is eli­gi­ble for an extend­ed draw­down to help con­trol weeds by expos­ing them to a deep freeze. How­ev­er, it has been four years since our last extend­ed draw­down and for the sec­ond year in a row we have been unable to exe­cute it due to poten­tial impact to the shal­low well of one of our neigh­bors. The Town of Hop­kin­ton, CIG, DPW and LMPA con­tin­ue to work towards a solu­tion. Since there is an expec­ta­tion of exces­sive weed growth for the upcom­ing year, the CIG has rec­om­mend­ed that the DPW be pre­pared to con­duct a spot appli­ca­tion of her­bi­cides if need­ed this Spring. This option is con­sis­tent with The Plan which has been approved by the Town of Hop­kin­ton and sup­port­ed by Upton and Mil­ford as well. In order to exe­cute on this request, the CIG held a Pub­lic Hear­ing where over six­ty inter­est­ed par­ties attend­ed to learn about the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion, the intent to use her­bi­cides and voice their opin­ions. An update to the Hop­kin­ton Select Board fol­lowed where there was unan­i­mous sup­port. The LMPA Exec­u­tive Board is in unan­i­mous sup­port of this rec­om­men­da­tion as well. The per­mit­ting process and the bid process to select a ven­dor has begun. The DPW has funds approved and allo­cat­ed in the cur­rent bud­get this year for this pur­pose so we should be well posi­tioned to act if dic­tat­ed by the Spring weed survey.

Our annu­al meet­ing was again held at Ko Sushi Bar and Grill where we had strong atten­dance and great input from our mem­ber­ship. Please mark your cal­en­dars for this year’s meet­ing which will be held on June 1, 2020. We will be vot­ing on two Exec­u­tive Board posi­tions avail­able as our Sec­re­tary Pat­ty Hol­land and Denise Voto­la­to will both be step­ping down. Although we will miss Pat­ty and Denise and appre­ci­ate all their con­tri­bu­tions, it will be a good oppor­tu­ni­ty to bring in new board mem­bers with fresh ideas and hope­ful­ly a lot of enthu­si­asm and ener­gy! If you are inter­est­ed in serv­ing on the board or want to learn more, please con­tact us at LMPA.org@verizon.net.

Once again, our Social Com­mit­tee was extreme­ly active with events that allowed all of us to have some fun while con­nect­ing with both long stand­ing and new neigh­bors. Our sec­ond annu­al “Spring Fling” at the Hop­kin­ton Coun­try Club was well attend­ed with over 80 mem­bers. This year’s Spring Fling which is being held on April 4th at the HCC. Please check out the enclosed fly­er and pur­chase your tick­ets early!

Oth­er com­mu­ni­ty events host­ed by the Social Com­mit­tee includ­ed Fam­i­ly Fun Day where Magi­cian Mike from Abra­cadabra was a huge hit with the kids. We kicked off the 4th of July hol­i­day with a new idea dubbed Light up the Lake. Many homes around the lake used cre­ative light­ing for every­one to enjoy via their boats. The boat parade was even bet­ter this year as boat own­ers showed great cre­ativ­i­ty. Con­grat­u­la­tions to The Sweeney Fam­i­ly for win­ning this year’s prop tro­phy for a sec­ond straight year for their “Under the Sea” theme. Our 4th annu­al Corn­hole tour­na­ment was a huge suc­cess. Con­grat­u­la­tions to the win­ners, Corey McDon­ald and Ron Haley!! Spe­cial thanks to our neigh­bors who host­ed tour­na­ment loca­tions and the Sweeney’s for again host­ing the finals and after party.

Pro­mot­ing boat safe­ty on the lake is an impor­tant objec­tive of the LMPA. In lieu of a ded­i­cat­ed Boat­ing Safe­ty Class we now pro­mote the numer­ous class­es already offered local­ly through the Envi­ron­men­tal Police. This infor­ma­tion is avail­able on the LMPA web­site. For the first time, the US Coast Guard offered boat safe­ty checks last sum­mer on Lake Maspenock and issued stick­ers for com­pli­ant boaters. The Coast Guard com­ment­ed that we had high par­tic­i­pa­tion for a lake our size. Final­ly, we encour­age all our mem­bers, neigh­bors and boat own­ers to “self-police” our lake. If you observe peo­ple com­pro­mis­ing safe­ty, please speak with them.

In response to the two trag­ic drown­ings over the last two sum­mers, the LMPA worked with the Hop­kin­ton Fire Chief and Parks & Recre­ation to improve pre­ven­tion and response plans. Active cam­eras have been installed at Sandy Beach as well as an Emer­gency box with video and a direct line to the Hop­kin­ton Police. New sig­nage has also been installed. We all hope that through increased vig­i­lance drown­ings can be pre­vent­ed in the future.

Stew­ard­ship of our won­der­ful lake is anoth­er impor­tant objec­tive of the asso­ci­a­tion. Water qual­i­ty checks are con­duct­ed three times a year in mul­ti­ple loca­tions around the lake. These results are post­ed on our web­site and demon­strate con­sis­tent­ly that we have a healthy lake with high water qual­i­ty. Our Spring Lake Cleanup was very well attend­ed while the Fall Cleanup was con­duct­ed by a group of enthu­si­as­tic Hop­kin­ton High School vol­un­teer stu­dents who were part of the new Envi­ron­men­tal Club. The LMPA pro­vid­ed piz­za for all the vol­un­teers and we thank Harvey’s for donat­ing the dumpster.

Our LMPA com­mu­ni­ty is thriv­ing and con­tin­ues to grow. Dues are $35 annu­al­ly or $65 for a two-year mem­ber­ship, payable by check writ­ten out to LMPA and mailed to 6 Downey Street Hop­kin­ton, MA or via the Pay­Pal link on our web­site at www.LMPA,org. To be envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly and cut down on costs, we strive to com­mu­ni­cate elec­tron­i­cal­ly. If your email changes, please let us know by email­ing lmpa.org@verizon.net.

Look­ing for­ward to 2020, we ask you to remain cur­rent in your mem­ber­ship, encour­age friends to join as mem­bers (You don’t have to live on the lake to join!) and par­tic­i­pate by get­ting involved in our many events and vol­un­teer opportunities.

We invite you to check out pho­tos from all com­mu­ni­ty events that can be found on our web­site at www.LMPA.org. Also found on our web­site are the dates for all the upcom­ing events this sum­mer. Please check it out and mark your cal­en­dars and “like” us on Face­book in order to stay updated.

We thank you for your sup­port of the LMPA, look for­ward to a great year in 2020 and hope to see you at the Spring Fling and Annu­al Meeting!

The Exec­u­tive Board and Offi­cers of the LMPA