From John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com Mon Mar 6 16:14:24 2006 From: John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com (John Ciolfi) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:14:24 -0500 Subject: [Fomp] Vote to help the pond Message-ID: I'm writing to let you know that at the Wellesley election, tomorrow Tuesday March 7, you can help support Morses Pond by voting for * Hays, Frank R., 49 Shore Road * Hodges Stanley G., 10 Pickerel Terrace as Town Meeting Members for precinct B. This year is an extremely important one for the Pond and your vote is needed. Frank Hays and Stanley Hodges are very active in Friends of Morses Pond and have both served as Chairmen in the past. They have also served as Town Meeting Members and have and will continue to give the Pond a voice in the Town. There are seventeen candidates for fifteen positions, so not all candidates will be elected. It's most effective to vote only for candidates that you know share your views and values. It is okay to vote for fewer than fifteen people if you aren't sure if other candidates share your views and values. Voting for fewer than the maximum fifteen candidates increases the impact of those few votes. Randomly selecting candidates to simply fill out your ballot has the effect of canceling out your vote. Thanks John Ciolfi http://www.morespond.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.morsespond.org/pipermail/fomp/attachments/20060306/6954ed8e/attachment.html From John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com Thu Mar 9 14:02:58 2006 From: John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com (John Ciolfi) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:02:58 -0500 Subject: [Fomp] Vote to help the pond Message-ID: Good news! Frank Hays and Stan Hodges both won the maximum three year terms and have asked me to thank all of you who voted. They both believe that they would not have made it without the support of FOMP members. They encourage others interested in the pond to run for Town Meeting next year. In the meantime they will do all they can to promote efforts to improve the pond this year. Thanks John Ciolfi http://www.moresponds.org ________________________________ From: fomp-bounces at morsespond.org [mailto:fomp-bounces at morsespond.org] On Behalf Of John Ciolfi Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 4:14 PM To: fomp at morsespond.org Subject: [Fomp] Vote to help the pond I'm writing to let you know that at the Wellesley election, tomorrow Tuesday March 7, you can help support Morses Pond by voting for * Hays, Frank R., 49 Shore Road * Hodges Stanley G., 10 Pickerel Terrace as Town Meeting Members for precinct B. This year is an extremely important one for the Pond and your vote is needed. Frank Hays and Stanley Hodges are very active in Friends of Morses Pond and have both served as Chairmen in the past. They have also served as Town Meeting Members and have and will continue to give the Pond a voice in the Town. There are seventeen candidates for fifteen positions, so not all candidates will be elected. It's most effective to vote only for candidates that you know share your views and values. It is okay to vote for fewer than fifteen people if you aren't sure if other candidates share your views and values. Voting for fewer than the maximum fifteen candidates increases the impact of those few votes. Randomly selecting candidates to simply fill out your ballot has the effect of canceling out your vote. Thanks John Ciolfi http://www.moresponds.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.morsespond.org/pipermail/fomp/attachments/20060309/6490190d/attachment.html From John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com Thu Mar 9 14:11:41 2006 From: John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com (John Ciolfi) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:11:41 -0500 Subject: [Fomp] Vote to help the pond Message-ID: I mistyped the web-site address. It should be: http://www.morsespond.org . Thanks, John ________________________________ From: fomp-bounces at morsespond.org [mailto:fomp-bounces at morsespond.org] On Behalf Of John Ciolfi Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 2:03 PM To: fomp at morsespond.org Subject: Re: [Fomp] Vote to help the pond Good news! Frank Hays and Stan Hodges both won the maximum three year terms and have asked me to thank all of you who voted. They both believe that they would not have made it without the support of FOMP members. They encourage others interested in the pond to run for Town Meeting next year. In the meantime they will do all they can to promote efforts to improve the pond this year. Thanks John Ciolfi http://www.moresponds.org ________________________________ From: fomp-bounces at morsespond.org [mailto:fomp-bounces at morsespond.org] On Behalf Of John Ciolfi Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 4:14 PM To: fomp at morsespond.org Subject: [Fomp] Vote to help the pond I'm writing to let you know that at the Wellesley election, tomorrow Tuesday March 7, you can help support Morses Pond by voting for * Hays, Frank R., 49 Shore Road * Hodges Stanley G., 10 Pickerel Terrace as Town Meeting Members for precinct B. This year is an extremely important one for the Pond and your vote is needed. Frank Hays and Stanley Hodges are very active in Friends of Morses Pond and have both served as Chairmen in the past. They have also served as Town Meeting Members and have and will continue to give the Pond a voice in the Town. There are seventeen candidates for fifteen positions, so not all candidates will be elected. It's most effective to vote only for candidates that you know share your views and values. It is okay to vote for fewer than fifteen people if you aren't sure if other candidates share your views and values. Voting for fewer than the maximum fifteen candidates increases the impact of those few votes. Randomly selecting candidates to simply fill out your ballot has the effect of canceling out your vote. Thanks John Ciolfi http://www.moresponds.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.morsespond.org/pipermail/fomp/attachments/20060309/de972c29/attachment-0001.html From John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com Mon Mar 13 16:25:43 2006 From: John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com (John Ciolfi) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:25:43 -0500 Subject: [Fomp] FW: Lake Cochituate mtg. on March 23rd: Using up-flow water circulators to control Eurasian water milfoil Message-ID: Hi, This may be worth attending. - John -----Original Message----- From: Dick and Jill Miller [mailto:TheMillers at millermicro.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:56 PM To: (Distribution List Suppressed) Subject: Lake Cochituate mtg. on March 23rd: Using up-flow water circulators to control Eurasian water milfoil Hi, Friends of Lake Cochituate: Please tell others -- interested in our lake or others -- about this important meeting! 7PM Thursday, March 23rd, 2006: The Cochituate State Park Advisory Committee (CSPAC), Protect Our Water Resources (POWR) and the Mass. Congress of Lakes and Ponds (COLAP) invite you to a public meeting in the Natick Kennedy Senior Center, 117 East Central St. (Rte. 135), one in a series regarding the Management of Invasive Aquatic Weeds in Lake Cochituate. Chris Knud-Hansen, a Ph.D. limnologist from Colorado, visits Lake Cochituate to present a non-chemical method for controlling aquatic-weed infestations of lakes. The SolarBee solar-powered up-flow water circulator has successfully removed Eurasian water milfoil and other problem growths from lakes. One preferred mode of operation permits up to 40-acre coverage by one device, without disturbing bottom sediments. Although this approach has worked well in other states and in the Province of Quebec since 1997, it has not yet been used in Massachusetts. Local and State officials and the public will learn about this application of these devices, and will ask the questions necessary to decide upon local action. More information on up-flow water circulators is online at: http://www.millermicro.com/LCmilfoil.html (Click on "Resources"; see "Links (Alternative Methods)". Contact: A. Richard "Dick" Miller (1-508/653-6136; TheMillers at millermicro.com) Please tell others -- interested in our lake or others -- about this important meeting! Thank you, from --Dick Miller Member, Cochituate State Park Advisory Committee Member, Natick Soldier System Center Restoration Advisory Board -- A. Richard & Jill A. Miller | MILLER MICROCOMPUTER SERVICES | Mailto:TheMillers at millermicro.com | 61 Lake Shore Road | Web: http://www.millermicro.com/ | Natick, MA 01760-2099, USA | Voice: 508/653-6136, 9AM-9PM -0500(EST)| 42?18'00.79" N, 71?22'27.68" W| From John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com Thu Mar 16 14:08:23 2006 From: John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com (John Ciolfi) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:08:23 -0500 Subject: [Fomp] Lake Cochituate Message-ID: Hi This may be interesting ... - John -----Original Message----- From: Dick and Jill Miller [mailto:TheMillers at millermicro.com] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:35 AM Subject: Lake Cochituate - Three imprtant metings (two TONIGHT) Hi, Friends of Lake Cochituate: If you want to know more about the health of Lake Cochituate, or to help make it better, THREE upcoming meetings (two of them TONIGHT!) may interest you (and some of your friends). You can find two of these -- along with helpful LINKS TO BACKGROUND MATERIAL -- at: http://www.millermicro.com/eventscalendar.html Tonight, 6-9PM at the Natick Morse Institute Library (14 East Central Street, Natick), Soldier Systems Center's Environmental Open House (a poster session): DoD's large, multi-branch research facility on Lake Cochituate (the old U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, or "NLabs") has been hard at work cleaning up toxic groundwater plumes headed toward Natick's Springvale drinking-water wells, and will be addressing sediment deposits in the lake. This rare poster session is designed for walk-in traffic, public questions and comments (about the groundwater aspect of its clean-up), or later follow-up. If you plan to attend the Natick Conservation Commission's NOI Hearing (Mass. DCR's proposal to apply herbicides to Lake Cochituate for aquatic plant control), you can attend this event on the way to that. Tonight, 7:40PM at Natick Town Hall (13 East Central Street, Natick), the Natick Conservation Commission's NOI Hearing on Mass. DCR's proposal to apply herbicides to Lake Cochituate for aquatic plant control: Most of us want to stop the infestations of Eurasian water milfoil and other invasive aquatic plants in Lake Cochituate and beyond. But how? Chemicals, or no chemicals? Adequate attention to alternate treatment methods, and to prevent the inter-pond spread of these foreign intruders, or not? These Conservation Commission hearings have closed in Framingham, and were continued in Wayland (March 29th) and Natick (tonight). Expected tonight: A report from an independent expert hired by the Natick Board of Health. And more. 7-9PM Thursday, March 23rd at the Natick Kennedy Senior Center, 117 East Central St. (Rte. 135), Natick, an educational meeting re the Management of Invasive Aquatic Weeds in Lake Cochituate using Up-flow Water Circulators: The Cochituate State Park Advisory Committee (CSPAC), Protect Our Water Resources (POWR) and the Mass. Congress of Lakes and Ponds (COLAP) invite you one in a series of public meetings regarding the Management of Invasive Aquatic Weeds in Lake Cochituate. Chris Knud-Hansen, a Ph.D. limnologist from Colorado, visits Lake Cochituate to introduce a non-chemical method for controlling aquatic-weed infestations of lakes. The SolarBee solar-powered up-flow water circulator has successfully removed Eurasian water milfoil and other problem growths from lakes. One preferred mode of operation permits up to 40-acre coverage by one device, without disturbing bottom sediments. Although this approach has worked well in other states and in the Province of Quebec since 1997, it has not yet been tried in Massachusetts. Local and State officials and the public will learn about this application of these devices, and will ask the questions necessary to decide upon local action. More information on up-flow water circulators, and a flier for posting, are online at: http://www.millermicro.com/LCmilfoil.html (Click on "Resources"; see "Links (Alternative Methods)". Contact: A. Richard Miller (1-508/653-6136; TheMillers at millermicro.com) Wow! Much talk about our favorite lake! Hopefully, with good results. Remember to note the events, to share this information with others, and to see the informational links at: http://www.millermicro.com/eventscalendar.html Cheers from --Dick Miller Member, Cochituate State Park Advisory Committee Member, Natick Soldier System Center Restoration Advisory Board Chairperson, Natick Cancer Study Task Force (inactive) -- A. Richard & Jill A. Miller | MILLER MICROCOMPUTER SERVICES | Mailto:TheMillers at millermicro.com | 61 Lake Shore Road | Web: http://www.millermicro.com/ | Natick, MA 01760-2099, USA | Voice: 508/653-6136, 9AM-9PM -0500(EST)| 42?18'00.79" N, 71?22'27.68" W| -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.morsespond.org/pipermail/fomp/attachments/20060316/3d8042a8/attachment.html From flashfox at copper.net Thu Mar 16 16:43:14 2006 From: flashfox at copper.net (Kent Fox) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:43:14 -0500 Subject: [Fomp] Lake Cochituate In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4419DBF2.6080900@copper.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.morsespond.org/pipermail/fomp/attachments/20060316/5ea68368/attachment-0001.html From John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com Thu Mar 16 20:07:13 2006 From: John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com (John Ciolfi) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:07:13 -0500 Subject: [Fomp] Wellesley Townsman article: Pond projects will sink or swim at TM Message-ID: Hi, The following article appeared in the Wellesley Townsman today (it is also linked off http://www.morsespond.org under the news section). - John Pond projects will sink or swim at TM By Rachel Lebeaux/ Townsman Staff Thursday, March 16, 2006 Town infrastructure projects don't always involve bricks and mortar: in the case of Morse's Pond, it's more like water and weeds. Three articles at Town Meeting later this month will seek to make Morse's Pond viable for recreational, environmental and water-quality purposes for a long time to come. Article 21, which was brought forth jointly by the Natural Resources Commission, the Recreation Commission and the Board of Public Works, asks Town Meeting members to approve a more-than-$1 million appropriation for the rehabilitation and maintenance of the 105-acre pond. According to NRC Director Janet Bowser, the work has been waiting for a while. "For a long time, Morse's Pond has been ignored as a resource," Bowser said of the pond, which has been enlarged several times since the 1700s. "People said, 'It's a nice pond. It's not looking very good, but we wouldn't have to [work on it] this year.' "The condition of the pond, both as an environmental resource and a recreational resource, has been declining for decades," Bowser said. "The sense was we need to begin developing a long-term management plan for the pond before losing it." The three boards came together because, Bowser said, they saw their interests in the pond as complementary. From the NRC's perspective, the pond is important as a natural and environmental resource; for the BPW, quality drinking water is crucial, since 40 percent of the town's water supply comes from deep wells adjacent to the pond; for the Recreation Commission, the pond offers residents the opportunity to swim, boat, hike, skate and fish. Town Meeting in 2004 approved $150,000 to conduct and develop a management plan for the pond, Bowser said. Part of that money came from Community Preservation Act funding; the rest, from the town budget. The town hired Dr. Ken Wagner, an environmental consultant, to work with town boards; along the way, a Morse's Pond Ad Hoc Committee was formed and residents were invited to attend five public forums on the matter. There are two main problems with the pond, Bowser said. The first is the presence of invasive weeds; the second is an overgrowth of algae. Last June, the Natural Resources Commission voted down one suggested method for curing those problems, an herbicide called fluridone. The town's Integrated Pest Management policy states that there must be a public-health emergency or no other alternatives in order for herbicides to be used, and the situation at Morse's Pond did not trigger that, Bowser said. Thus, to counter the weeds, Town Meeting members under Article 13 will be asked to approve a $250,000 appropriation from the CPA fund to purchase of a new weed harvester. "The town has a more-than 20-year-old weed harvester that needs to be replaced - every year, we cross our fingers that it continues to float," Bowser said. The other primary concern is that there is too much algae in the water, which damages water clarity. To address that, Bowser said, Town Meeting will be asked to endorse a three-part solution. The first portion of the plan revolves around watershed management, including educating residents, reviewing (and possibly tightening up) town bylaws and enforcing stormwater management. Although only 22 percent of the Morse's Pond watershed lies in Wellesley (the rest is in Natick and Weston), Wellesley's portion - "pretty much everything north of Route 9" - is the most developed, Bowser said. The second part would call for implementing a phosphorus inactivation station. "The primary problem in terms of algae growth in the pond is that there is too much phosphorus and fertilizer going into the pond, mainly from people's lawns," Bowser explained. That run-off eventually finds its way into storm drains, and then into the pond. "This station would be at the inlet, and would bind with the phosphorus so it's deactivated, and won't enter the pond in a harmful form," Bowser said. The third recommendation is to dredge the northern basin of the pond of sediment. Initially, there were talks of dredging the entire pond, but the cost could have soared to $9 million. The method before Town Meeting would call for using a machine that Bowser likened to "a big straw that would pull the sediment out of the bottom." The entire cost of the proposed plan, not including the weed harvester, is $1,073,000. There is also a $75,000 appropriation within the town's operating budget that would cover the hiring of a pond manager, paying two people to operate the weed harvester and some other costs. If Article 21 is approved by Town Meeting, the funds to clean up Morse's Pond would appear on an override ballot as part of a debt-exclusion question proposed by town officials to address three years worth of town infrastructure needs. On this matter, "We deferred to the powers that be to make the wider municipal finance decision," Bowser said. "We understand that the town has multiple needs at this point, and we hope this will be funded." If the debt exclusion does not pass, work on Morse's Pond would have to be deferred for at least another year. If it were approved, "work would start immediately." No matter what, Bowser said, there would be no impact on swimmers, as harvesting would not take place in the beach area. She added that, under Article 20, the Recreation Commission is requesting an appropriation of funds toward rehabilitating or reconstructing the Morse's -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.morsespond.org/pipermail/fomp/attachments/20060316/cfaa619c/attachment.html From John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com Fri Mar 24 14:23:56 2006 From: John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com (John Ciolfi) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:23:56 -0500 Subject: [Fomp] Morses Pond: a neglected jewel Message-ID: Hi, Please see http://www.morsespond.org/news/2006_0323_Morses_Pond_a_neglected_jewel.h tml for an article on Morses Pond that appeared in the Townsman yesterday. This article is in support of the Comprehensive Management Plan to be voted on this spring. If you agree with the article, it would be worth while to visit the Town Web site and vote for the article: http://www.townonline.com/wellesley/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=4560 26 Thanks John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.morsespond.org/pipermail/fomp/attachments/20060324/34078cd0/attachment.html From John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com Fri Mar 24 15:00:01 2006 From: John.Ciolfi at mathworks.com (John Ciolfi) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:00:01 -0500 Subject: [Fomp] Morses Pond: a neglected jewel Message-ID: Hi, The correct link to the article on the Townsman is http://www.townonline.com/wellesley/opinion/view.bg?articleid=455978 Thanks, John ________________________________ From: fomp-bounces at morsespond.org [mailto:fomp-bounces at morsespond.org] On Behalf Of John Ciolfi Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:24 PM To: fomp at morsespond.org Subject: [Fomp] Morses Pond: a neglected jewel Hi, Please see http://www.morsespond.org/news/2006_0323_Morses_Pond_a_neglected_jewel.h tml for an article on Morses Pond that appeared in the Townsman yesterday. This article is in support of the Comprehensive Management Plan to be voted on this spring. 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