Lake Management Committee

Lake Management Committee approves year-three eDNA survey under $250,000 grant. Chair Dick Grannells' committee voted unanimously to accept a Stantec proposal for the lake eDNA survey, part of the USACE/DCR Hydrilla Grant Project, and issued a purchase order to begin work. A 2026 Solitude invasives

Lake Management Committee approves Hydrilla eDNA survey, minus one task pending risk review. Chair Dick Grannells led the vote to accept a $67,754 Stantec proposal for four-task Congamond Lake testing, funded by grant, but excluded task two involving dead Ballyhoo bait fish as a controlled DNA

Lake Management Committee authorizes submission of watershed plan letter to MassDEP. Chair Dick Grannells and Vice-Chair Eric Mueller were directed to finalize and submit by May 29, 2026, a Nine-Element Watershed-Based Plan letter to CEI Engineering expressing interest in funding from S-319 grants

Southwick Lake Committee Recommends Significantly Stricter Ice-Vehicle Bylaws and Extraction Cost Recovery. The Lake Management Committee on April 9 recommended amendments to Chapter 75-12 and 75-17 to increase the violation fine from $50 to $200, delete a plowing exemption, and charge violators

Lake Management Committee tightens winter-recreation rules, advances plant management plan. The committee voted unanimously to remove a plowing exception from the town's ice-vehicle bylaw and to expand penalties to include all costs of violations, moves prompted by town expenses from winter