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Update on Extended Draw Down of Lake Maspenock

As of last Tues­day, Decem­ber 1st, there had been a 76″ reduc­tion in the lake lev­el.  The lev­el is being reduced at a rate of about 1″ per day.  The reduc­tion will cease Decem­ber 15th.  It looks like the total reduc­tion this year will be about 90″ unless sig­nif­i­cant rain­fall occurs.  The lake will be main­tained at the reduced lev­el until we expe­ri­ence sig­nif­i­cant freez­ing or we reach Jan­u­ary 15th. 2016.  Re-fill of the lake will begin once it is deter­mined that we have expe­ri­enced suf­fi­cient freez­ing of the weed roots or we reach Jan­u­ary 15th, 2016.  Re-fill will begin no lat­er than Jan­u­ary 15th, 2016.  Feel free to reach out to the LMPA with any and all ques­tions (lmpa.org@verizon.net).

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Executive Board Meeting Minutes — October 6, 2015

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

Octo­ber 6, 2015

 

Atten­dance:  Pat­ty, Tina, Mike, Sabine, Matt, Jaime

Start time:     7:15 pm

 

  1. Review and dis­cuss any changes or clar­i­fi­ca­tions to the meet­ing min­utes from August 10th and Sep­tem­ber 1st Bd. Meet­ings Vote to accept the min­utes, post meet­ing min­utes to the web­site after board approval

Changes made to min­utes, vote to post

            Motion:  Patty

            Sec­ond: Tina

            Unanimous

 

  1. Treasurer’s Report –

Reg­u­lar account:  $3,218.84

Weed Fund:  $5,707.29

Con­stant new mem­ber­ships and dona­tions com­ing in.

 

  1. Lake Clean Up

Octo­ber 17th, 9:00 am

As usu­al, cof­fee and donuts at 9:00 am

Piz­za for vol­un­teers at 12:00 pm

Dump­ster will be deliv­ered and picked up on Oct. 17th in the afternoon.

Need to recruit vol­un­teers, Sabine to reach out to FB mem­ber­ships and the high school for volunteers.

Reminders to be post­ed on web­site and Face­book — Patty

 

 

  1. LMPA Weed Subcommittee

Need to get sub­com­mit­tee formed in order to get research and infor­ma­tion out to gen­er­al pub­lic of Hopkinton. 

 

Talked about sched­ul­ing 3–4 “cof­fee ses­sions” like the schools did at Water Fresh.  Maybe one at Ko, one at Fire Sta­tion, oth­ers TBD.

 

Put togeth­er an email to send to mem­ber­ship about re-form­ing LMPA weed com­mit­tee.  Tina to find old email and send to Eboard for approval to send.

 

Ask Mal­colm or Drew to con­tact Mike Gibbs, Dave Gibbs, Don Kaiser to see if they want to be part of the LMPA Subcommittee.

 

  1. New Town Weed Advi­so­ry Board

First meet­ing to be held on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 8th

Jaime to report back to board on meet­ing agen­da and what was discussed.

Jaime to ask if we can post infor­ma­tion about Weed Advi­so­ry min­utes to our FB page and website.

 

  1. New Busi­ness

Chron­i­cle had a nice report on Lake Life.  Pat­ty to get video of the pro­gram and post on Web­site and Facebook.

 

Ask Mal­colm to respond to Hop­kin­ton Inde­pen­dent request for interview. 

 

 

  1. Next meet­ing: Tues­day, Novem­ber 10th, 7:00 pm, Tina’s house

 

            Motion to adjourn:           Patty

            Sec­ond: Mike

            Unanimous

 

End time:  8:20 pm

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Article in The Hopkinton Independent — October 29th issue

Many thanks to The Hop­kin­ton Inde­pen­dent and Eri­ka Steele for help­ing to edu­cate the res­i­dents of Hop­kin­ton about the Lake’s Inva­sive Weed Problem.

Please click on the link below, which will take you to a very infor­ma­tive arti­cle that was pub­lished in the lat­est issue of The Hop­kin­ton Inde­pen­dent regard­ing Lake Maspenock­’s Con­tin­u­ing Weed Problem.

Lake Maspenock Weeds a Grow­ing Problem

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NEXT LMPA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING — TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th

The next LMPA Exec­u­tive Board meet­ing will be held on Tues­day, Novem­ber 10th at 7:00 pm.

Please let Mal­colm Page know if you are plan­ning to attend (malcolmepage@gmail.com)

This is a reg­u­lar Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing, not a spe­cial Gen­eral Meeting.

We will be post­ing these month­ly  meet­ing dates, so that if any Lake Mem­bers have some­thing they would like to dis­cuss with the E‑Board, they are wel­come to attend.

The meet­ing will be held at 6 Downey Street (home of Tina and Jon MacConnell).

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LMPA Weed Subcommittee Volunteers Needed!!!

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.

Time require­ments of the sub­com­mit­tee mem­bers are to be deter­mined, but one should expect at least 1–2 meet­ings per month and some time out­side of meet­ings to own a par­tic­u­lar action item that will help ful­fill the mis­sion of the subcommittee.

Please respond direct­ly to the LMPA by  email to lmpa.org@verizon.net, if you are inter­est­ed in serv­ing on this sub­com­mit­tee. We wish every­one a won­der­ful fall sea­son on our beau­ti­ful lake!

The Exec­u­tive Board of the LMPA

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REMINDER — LAKE CLEANUP — Saturday, October 17th

REMINDER!!!

The LMPA will be host­ing a LAKE CLEANUP on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 17th. Please meet at Sandy Beach park­ing lot to pick up trash bags at 9:00 am (cof­fee, hot choco­late and donuts pro­vid­ed to workers!).

There will be a dump­ster in Sandy Beach park­ing lot for you to bring your trash bags back to dur­ing the clean up.

We will meet back at Sandy Beach park­ing lot at 12:00 pm, and the LMPA will pro­vide piz­za, soda/water for those who worked hard clean­ing our beau­ti­ful resource!!!

Please join us and bring lots of helpers on Octo­ber 17th!!!!

We will be pro­vid­ing a let­ter to any­one who needs proof of vol­un­teer­ing to help as well.  Just let one of the LMPA board mem­bers know that day.

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Executive Board Meeting Minutes from September 1, 2015

Exec. bd meet­ing min­utes ‑090115

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

Sep­tem­ber 1, 2015

 

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

Start time:     7:15 pm

 

  1. Treasurer’s Report – no changes from last meeting

Reg­u­lar account:  $4,016.68

Weed Fund:  $4,957.08

Con­stant new mem­ber­ships and dona­tions com­ing in.

 

  1. Review and dis­cuss any changes or clar­i­fi­ca­tions to the meet­ing min­utes from August 10th Bd. Meet­ing.  Vote to accept the min­utes, post meet­ing min­utes to the web­site after board approval

Min­utes not avail­able, Pat­ty to send to E‑Board at a lat­er date for approval.  Will vote to accept at next meeting.

 

  1. Extend­ed Draw Down

Dave Gibbs called Spin­del Island fam­i­ly, they have agreed to $1,000 to move and allow Extend­ed Draw Down with no issues

Mike put togeth­er a hous­ing agree­ment for them to sign.

Pay­ment will be made 10/1 out of reg­u­lar funds, with the inten­tion to ask Board of Select­men to reim­burse LMPA from the Weed Funds approved by Town Meet­ing.  This should be turned over to the Town in the future.

 

  1. Bio­log­i­cal Survey

            Bio­log­i­cal sur­vey was com­plet­ed by ACT on 8/31/15.  AB Aquat­ics (DASH com­pa­ny) to do com­pre­hen­sive sur­vey of the lake in Sep­tem­ber to deter­mine worst areas to be focused on.  They will give results once com­plet­ed to LMPA and the Town.

  1. Dis­solved Oxy­gen Testing

2 addi­tion­al tests will be per­formed in addi­tion to our nor­mal Water Test­ing.  Test­ing to be done in Sep­tem­ber in the North Basin

Mal­colm to send noti­fi­ca­tion out to mem­ber­ship and update on weed control.

  1. Ropes and Mark­ers – Park & Rec

Ropes are mark­ers were removed from Sandy Beach, even though Lau­ra had asked at the Park & Rec meet­ing to have them remain until after Labor Day.  Sabine talked with Lau­ra, Lau­ra will look into why they were removed.  Pos­si­bly a sign in the bath house should be put up regard­ing this.

 

  1. Web­site and Facebook

Pat­ty has been doing the updates and adding infor­ma­tion and photos.

Put a fold­er up on Safe­ty on the web­site (Boat­ing Safety)

Start a Fun Fact Fri­day on Face­book,  one per­son each week to send a fun fact to Pat­ty to post on Face­book (this week, Drew will send “Did you know” about PWC safety.

 

  1. Lake Clean Up

Octo­ber 17th, 9:00 am

As usu­al, cof­fee and donuts at 9:00 am

Piz­za for vol­un­teers at 12:00 pm

Pat­ty to post on Face­book, Tina to send email to membership.

 

  1. New Busi­ness

Talked about new fun activ­i­ties that can be planned for members:

            Lake Corn Hole Tour­na­ment, go from home to home on the lake and play

            Vol­ley­ball Tournament

Sabine to talk with Lau­ra to try to get some­thing set up, if not this year, next year.

Update brochure and send to Sabine so she can dis­trib­ute to Wel­come Wag­on when new neigh­bors move to the lake.

Next meet­ing:  Tues­day, Octo­ber 6th, 7:00 pm, Tina’s house

            Motion to adjourn:           Malcolm

            Sec­ond: Mike

            Unanimous

End time:  8:45 pm

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Executive Board Meeting Minutes from August 10, 2015

Exec. bd meet­ing min­utes ‑081015

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

August 10, 2015

 

Atten­dance:  Mal­colm, Drew, Pat­ty, Tina, Mark, Mike, Sabine, Matt, Paul, Jaime

Start time:     7:05 pm

 

  1. Treasurer’s Report –

Reg­u­lar account:  $4,016.68

Weed Fund:  $4,957.08

Con­stant new mem­ber­ships and dona­tions com­ing in.

 

  1. Review and dis­cuss any changes or clar­i­fi­ca­tions to the meet­ing min­utes from July 20th Exec. Bd. Meet­ing. Vote to accept the min­utes, post meet­ing min­utes to the web­site after board approval

Mal­colm had two changes, name of town board is Weed Man­age­ment Advi­so­ry Group and BOS not BOD.  Vote to accept once changes have been made.

Motion:  Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Tina

Unan­i­mous

 

  1. Park & Rec – Removal of Buoys at Beach

Lau­ra will check at next meet­ing on 8/12.  Plan is to meet Lau­ra at the beach the week after Labor Day to remove.  Ask P&R about installing on Memo­r­i­al Day next year.  Lau­ra to dis­cuss with Park & Rec board.

Talked about links on LMPA web­site to Park & Rec site, she thought it was a great idea.  Dis­cussed end of sum­mer gath­er­ing (pos­si­bly 8/30), Lau­ra to dis­cuss with Park & Rec.

   4.  Bio­log­i­cal Survey

Adding Dis­solved Oxy­gen lev­els to cur­rent test­ing.  Mark to pick up extra can­is­ters, next water test­ing will be right after Labor Day (Sep­tem­ber).

Vote:  Add for costs of addi­tion­al test­ing for Dis­solved Oxy­gen lev­els ($100)

            Motion:  Malcolm

            Sec­ond: Patty

            Unanimous

 5.  Draw Down

Mal­colm con­tact­ed John West­er­ling at DPW.  They are in sup­port of an extend­ed draw down to con­trol inva­sive weeds.  Mal­colm to send notice to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion by 8/15.  This would be one year soon­er than sched­uled extend­ed draw down.

            Spin­del Island – Mark to ask Dave Gibbs to talk to occu­pants of island

 

Vote:  To spend up to $1,000 of LMPA monies to Spin­del Island occu­pants, and Mal­colm to sub­mit to DPW for reim­burse­ment from Weed Fund approved by Town Meet­ing ($60,000).

            Motion:  Patty

            Sec­ond:  Malcolm

            Unanimous

 

  1. Upcom­ing Election

Paul is resign­ing effec­tive 9/1/15.

Vote tonight to appoint replacement.

Motion:  Mike

Sec­ond:  Malcolm

 

            Two mem­bers would like to be considered

            Jaime Goncalves

            Don Kaiser

            Vote tak­en, unan­i­mous votes for Jaime Goncalves for replacement

 

  1. Weed Com­mit­tee

            Needs to meet again soon.  Com­mit­tee will need to be reor­ga­nized, email needs to be sent to cur­rent mem­bers to see if they are still inter­est­ing in serv­ing on that committee.

  1. Event Insur­ance

Matt called the insur­ance com­pa­ny.  Got a syn­op­sis of what our pol­i­cy covers

$1,000,000 lia­bil­i­ty cov­er­age for E‑board mem­bers, Indem­ni­fies LMPA from dam­ages.  Rec­om­men­da­tion is to con­tin­ue cov­er­age — $900 per year

 

  1. Weed Con­trol Signs

Rec­om­mend that signs be col­lect­ed and stored.

 

  1. Ter­centen­ni­al Celebration

Sabine to talk to Ron about participation

 

  1. New Busi­ness

Noth­ing to report at this meeting

 

Next meet­ing:  Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 1st, 7:00 pm, Patty’s house

 

Motion to adjourn:           Malcolm

Sec­ond: Patty

Unan­i­mous

 

Meet­ing end:  8:55 pm