- Chair Michael Nathan announced that the Lake Management Plan is complete and as soon as there is a clean copy, it will be submitted to the Select Board.
- The Water Chestnuts will be surveyed and pulled as a much cheaper price than formerly imagined.
- Town Administrator is working to solve the problem with the Harvesting Permit. It seems the permitting agency interpreted the words “one pass” as one pass per run
- The priorities list for the Commission included: Algae, Invasives, and harvesting. A discussion followed that focused on the algae only. Cyanobacteria Blooms are toxic algae blooms. There were questions about what anyone could do if a bloom appears, who has jurisdiction, and can blooms be prevented in the first place.
Tri-Town Health has jurisdiction and if a bloom appears will close the lake. Perhaps only a portion of the lake needs to be closed, but that would require testing the water. There are ways to treat (read poison) the bloom but that can release poison into the lake. It is a hard call. There are ways to prevent or diminish chances of a bloom forming. A few years ago, Roxanne McCaffrey prepared a list of things to know for those who lived around the lake. It suggested that causes were use of fertilizer on lawns, weed killers, and runoff. It suggested these things be avoided. Tri-Town Health and Chair Charlie Kenny are working on the problems.
- Don Chabon suggested that two processes are soon to take place and SBSC should have representatives to oversee them. They are two of the largest public works undertaken on the lake in his lifetime, Chabon said. They agreed to take the matter up at the next meeting.