Town of East Hampton Lake Pocotopaug Commission
Lake Management Planning Committee Meeting
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 7:00pm
Community Room, Public Library
Minutes
1. Call to Order & Roll Call – 7:02 p.m.
Present: Robert Hart, John Ciriello, Tom Wells (none absent)
2. Selection of Committee Chairman & Recording Secretary
Bob Hart was selected to be both committee chairman and recording secretary.
3. Approval of Minutes of Previous Meetings - None
4. Public Remarks - None
5. Unfinished Business - None
6. New Business
A. Lake & Watershed Management Plan
1) General Discussion and Plan of Action
The “Ad Hoc Lake Committee” plan documents were based on the earlier Lake Waramaug Plan from the ‘90’s. ENSR, International, our lake consultant could write our plan. We would provide guidelines, make choices, and direct them. We would hold regular meetings as a committee with them. Find out costs…can we obtain grants? Chuck Lee can help with grants. Also, the town has a grant writer. Wendy Gendron sent an October 16, 2007 e-mail to Bob & John urging us to wait on any improvement projects until after a lake “nutrient budget” is prepared by ENSR and the state DEP, which is part of the current ENSR contract. She also provided information on grant sources in the e-mail. Assign an investigation into why our lake is more sensitive to phosphorus than ‘normal’ to a grad student as a
project (see action item 6 below). But we can’t wait for answers to start implementing solutions.
We could also get grad student help to do a land-use study in the watershed (see action item 6 below). Implement it using G.I.S.
Action Items:
1. John: Get example of “plans” from ENSR (Wendy?). Costs?
2. Committee (later): Meet with ENSR. If the meeting is with the full commission we could save $$, but Bob feels that the committee should do ‘advance’ work with ENSR, not the full commission.
3. John (later): Provide Ken Wagner of ENSR with “Audit Tools” to determine which back ground information he needs to write a plan. Do this after completing action item 1 above.
4. Provide ENSR with Jim Smith’s alum treatment research – Ken worked on some of this with other towns.
5. Bob: Contact Chuck Lee to send us versions of plans for our reference.
6. John: Call Peter Rich about grad. Student’s help.
B. Other
Meet the 1st Tuesday of each month. Next meeting November 6th – pending meeting room availability
7. Public Remarks - None
8. Adjournment – 8:33 p.m.
Prepared and Submitted By: Robert P. Hart, Committee Chairman and Recording Secretary
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