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Descrip­tion

The mis­sion of the Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tionPicture of clearing sky over the lake, to pre­serve and pro­tect the lake envi­ron­ment, can only be met with the involve­ment of peo­ple like you and we greatly appre­ci­ate your support.

Gen­eral Information

Lake Maspenock Facts and Figures

  •  The sur­face area is 234 acres.
  • In its orig­i­nal form, it was prob­a­bly 30 to 40 acres.
  • The lake is bounded by Hop­kin­ton, Upton and Milford.
  • The lake is approx­i­mately 2 miles long and 2,000 feet wide at its widest part.
  • At Its out­let the lake drains approx­i­mately 1,813 acres.
  • Lake Maspenock” lit­er­ally means, choice fish­ing place or nex­cel­lent fish pond.
  • The lake even­tu­ally flows into the Black­stone River and then into the Atlantic Ocean.
  • It takes approx­i­mately 260 days to fully dis­place the entire vol­ume of water.
  • The lake con­tains approx­i­mately 619,116,900 gal­lons of water.
  • The lake has an aver­age mean depth of 8 feet.
  • The flow rate of water is approx­i­mately 28 feet per second.
  • The lakes base ele­va­tion is 348 feet. The lake is at the lon­gi­tude of 75.50 and a lat­i­tude of 88.60 421055N 0713312 W.
  • Lake Maspenock is a “Great Pond”. The ordi­nances for great ponds were cre­ated as far back as 1641. A great pond is a body of water greater than 10 acres and its own­er­ship (more or less) is the state.

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Meeting Minutes — 4 March 2013

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

MARCH 4, 2013

Attend­ing:

Mal­colm, Brian, Frank, Tina, Patty, Mike, Mark

Start time: 7:03 pm

 

1. Review and vote to accept min­utes from Jan­u­ary 22nd meeting.

Post meet­ing min­utes to web­site after board approval

Mal­colm had changes:

Add the word “min­utes” to title of document

Mike should have been added as attend­ing the meeting

Clar­ify that noth­ing will be acted on: Carol Esler’s conservation

Over­lay Dis­trict comments

Machine Sand in the Park and Rec com­ment – change to “the sand will be machined, water depth must remain 3–4 feet deep”

 

Motion to accept min­utes with amendments:

Motion: Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Mike

Unan­i­mous

 

2. Treasurer’s Report – Dues rec’d?

There is $1,144.07 in check­ing account

Paid fee for Spring Social to Rod and Gun — $75.00

Email sent to mem­ber­ship on 3/2 – 90 emails, 3 responses

Drew – change Pay­Pal account to the new bank

 

3. Carol Esler – Email to mem­ber­ship con­cern­ing pro­tect­ing lake views

when new con­struc­tion takes place.

Carol is more than wel­come to address this issue at the Annual Meet­ing with the mem­ber­ship. Mal­colm had advised Carol of what should be addressed in an email to mem­ber­ship. Wait­ing for her response.

4. Fund raising

Mike met with Collela’s and Price Chop­per. He will bring our brochure to Colella’s at their request, he will get the name of the per­son in Price Chopper’s Cor­po­rate head­quar­ters to talk to. Did not get to talk to any­one at Bill’s Pizza. He will fol­low up with PR per­son from EMC.

 

5. Dam Advi­sory com­mit­tee – Update-Mike, Mark, Frank

Frank and Mark signed up for the Com­mit­tee, Frank has been sworn

in by the Town. Dave Gibbs to also sign up. Meet­ings will begin

once com­mit­tee is formed and they have a sched­ule of meetings

6. Let­ter to EMC to express the need to look at the future of the com­plete par­cel owned by EMC – Sent last week

Mal­colm sent let­ter to EMC last week after review of E Board members

 

7. Pre­pare report to be sub­mit­ted to Con­ser­va­tion Comm. concerning

the results of the more exten­sive draw down. Post orig­i­nal report on our

web­site

Mal­colm to pre­pare the report and send the orig­i­nal report to Jen for

post­ing on our web­site and Facebook

8. Pre­pare Annual review of 2012, “State of the Lake”, for LMPA members

Mal­colm to pre­pare report

9. Friends of White­hall Annual meet­ing – Feb­ru­ary 5th, Guest speaker From DCR to present infor­ma­tion about weed con­trol – did any­one attend?

No one attended the meeting

10. Boat­ing safety course – Mark

Mark sent a note to Peter regard­ing this years course

Wait­ing to hear back from him

Mark to send a note to Jack Mason as well

Need to pick a date soon

11. Spring kick-off social – March 30th

Paid for rental of Rod and Gun Club

E Board Mem­bers to con­tribute the Appetizers

E Board mem­bers to arrive at 6 pm to set up

Social event – 7pm to 10 pm

Invi­ta­tion to mem­ber­ship to be sent this week

Tina will ask Drew to get the tro­phy and have new win­ner inscribed

12. Meet­ing con­cern­ing zon­ing at 169 West Main

No one attended the meeting

Look­ing to get the zon­ing changed to Busi­ness Zone from rural busi­ness. The uses that would be allowed under the busi­ness zon­ing would be about the same as cur­rently allowed.

 

 

 

13. New Business

Dis­cussed var­i­ous events for 2013:

 

Annual Meet­ing – 7 pm on May 20th at Tina’s – E Board to discuss

fur­ther at April E Board Meeting

Fam­ily Fun Day – after beach closes for the sea­son due to construction

in the Spring

Fish­ing Derby – May/June

 

Save the Date email once we final­ize dates for upcom­ing events

 

14. Next meeting?

Mon­day, April 8th – 7:00 pm, Tina’s

 

Motion for adjournment:

Motion: Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Tina

Unan­i­mous

 

End time: 8:34 pm

 

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