Month: August 2013

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Water Testing Results — 19 August 2013

Town of Hopkinton, MA — Public Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES 2013

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 29, 2013 and clos­es August 18, 2013. It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1) No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date Left side of Beach CFU/100ml Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

June 24 <10 <10 10

July 1 10 0 30

July 8 11 MPN 3.1 MPN 18 MPN

July 15 9 MPN 13.0 MPN 15 MPN

July 22 3.0 MPN 8.0 MPN 8.0 MPN

July 29 15.0 MPN 14.0 MPN 161 MPN

Aug 5 5.0 MPN 4.0 MPN 7.0 MPN

Aug 12 6.0 MPN 9.0 MPN 30.0 MPN

Beach closed for the season

Aug 19 6.0 MPN 10.0 MPN 3.0 MPN

Aug 26

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 18, 2013 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 66 ⁰F, = +2.3 ◦ Fͦ month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inch­es, 12.11, + 8.42 inch­es for the month

July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 74.1 ⁰F, + 4.4⁰F for the month(3rd warmest July on record) and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was 3.09 inch­es, -.55 inch­es for the month

August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F for the month, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

7/10/13

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

Cost of pro­gram 2012 12 weeks (3 sam­ples $60.00) $720.00

Sam­pling and sam­ple deliv­ery 12 ($35.14/2 hrs) $843.00

Mileage $286.33 Total $1, 849.34

 

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Water Testing Results — 12 August 2013

Town of Hopkinton, MA — Public Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES 2013

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 29, 2013 and clos­es August 18, 2013. It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1) No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date Left side of Beach CFU/100ml Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

June 24 <10 <10 10

July 1 10 0 30

July 8 11 MPN 3.1 MPN 18 MPN

July 15 9 MPN 13.0 MPN 15 MPN

July 22 3.0 MPN 8.0 MPN 8.0 MPN

July 29 15.0 MPN 14.0 MPN 161 MPN

Aug 5 5.0 MPN 4.0 MPN 7.0 MPN

Aug 12 6.0 MPN 9.0 MPN 30.0 MPN

Aug 19

Aug 26

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 18, 2013 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 66 ⁰F, = +2.3 ◦ Fͦ month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inch­es, 12.11, + 8.42 inch­es for the month

July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 74.1 ⁰F, + 4.4⁰F for the month(3rd warmest July on record) and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was 3.09 inch­es, -.55 inch­es for the month

August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F for the month, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

7/10/13

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

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Meeting Minutes — 19 June 2013

Lake Maspenock Preservation Association

Executive Board Meeting Minutes

JUNE 19, 2013

Start time: 7:27 pm

In atten­dance:

Mal­colm, Frank, Mike, Pat­ty, Bri­an, Drew, Rick

1. Review and vote to accept min­utes from May 20th meeting.

Post meet­ing min­utes to web­site after board approval

Motion: Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Mike

Unan­i­mous

2. Treasurer’s Report – Trea­sur­er (Tina) not present at meet­ing to present figures

3. Fund raising

Mike – no progress, sta­tus quo

Mike wants to talk to Lou about EMC, will talk to Price Chop­per (Cor­po­rate)

Sug­ges­tion to check with Price Chop­per to see if we can sell T‑Shirts/Hats/Sweatshirts/Towels at the store, Mike to look into this

4. Update on Sandy Beach work, Buoys?

Beach open­ing – June

Beach house sched­uled to be con­struct­ed ear­ly July (sub modular)

Scope has not changed but progress is slow

Bri­an has resigned from Park and Rec

5. Dam Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee (Update Mike, Mark, Frank)

Mike has not heard any­thing regard­ing first meet­ing from Nor­man (Town Manager)’s office. Mike to call Jaime Gonzalvez

6. Let­ter to EMC

Dave Gibbs called Dan Fitzger­ald, he got no response

7. Boat Parade, 7/4, 2:00 pm – Notice sent out, send out fol­low-up notice?

Fol­low up notice was sent on June 29th by Tina to membership

8. Dunkin’ Donuts Petition?

Jen sent a note to Mal­colm from a res­i­dent, they want us to spon­sor NOT sup­port­ing the new Dunkin’ Donuts on West Main Street to be built. Not some­thing that the Lake Asso­ci­a­tion would spon­sor or sup­port, we sup­port envi­ron­men­tal and lake issues. The phys­i­cal loca­tion is out­side of our area of inter­est thus not con­sis­tent with our Mission.

9. New Business

Extend­ed Draw Down –

What paper­work needs to be in place for the Lake Asso­ci­a­tion to hold the extend­ed draw down this year, new weeds are ter­ri­ble on North side of the lake

The cur­rent agree­ment is every three years, we would have to go back to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mit­tee with a new Notice of Intent to accel­er­ate the date to this year. Mal­colm will research, talk to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mit­tee and get nec­es­sary paper­work in order.

Fish­ing Tour­na­ment – Sep­tem­ber 14th is pro­posed, every­one seemed to be good with that date, more plan­ning dis­cussed at next meeting

10. Next meeting?

Mon­day, August 5th – 7:00 pm – 6 Downey Street (Tina’s)

11. Motion for adjournment

Motion: Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Patty

Unan­i­mous

End time: 8:24 pm

 

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Water Testing Results — 5 August 2013

Town of Hopkinton, MA — Public Bathing Beach

SANDY BEACH WATER SAMPLES 2013

Oper­at­ed by Hop­kin­ton Parks and Recre­ation Depart­ment – Beach opens June 29, 2013 and clos­es August 18, 2013. It is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., sev­en days a week dur­ing this period

445. 031: Indi­ca­tor Organisms

… (B) For fresh water, the indi­ca­tor organ­ism shall be E. Coli or Enterococci.

(1) No sin­gle E. Coli sam­ple shall exceed 235 colonies per 100 ml. and the geo­met­ric mean of the most recent five E. Coli sam­ples with­in the same bathing sea­son shall not exceed 126 colonies per 100 ml. …

Indi­ca­tor Organ­ism — E. Coli

Sam­ple Date Left side of Beach CFU/100ml Cen­ter of Beach CFU/100ml Right side of Beach CFU/100ml

June 24 <10 <10 10

July 1 10 0 30

July 8 11 MPN 3.1 MPN 18 MPN

July 15 9 MPN 13.0 MPN 15 MPN

July 22 3.0 MPN 8.0 MPN 8.0 MPN

July 29 15.0 MPN 14.0 MPN 161 MPN

Aug 5 5.0 MPN 4.0 MPN 7.0 MPN

Aug 12

Aug 19

Aug 26

N.B. Although there are no life­guards at the beach after August 18, 2013 sam­ples will be tak­en to the end of August__

June — Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age 66 ⁰F, = +2.3 ◦ Fͦ month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inch­es, 12.11, + 8.42 inch­es for the month July – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F, + ⁰F for the month and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was____ inch­es, for the month August – Tem­per­a­ture for the month aver­age ⁰F for the month, and pre­cip­i­ta­tion was inches

Tem­per­a­ture and pre­cip­i­ta­tion infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by Blue Hills Obser­va­to­ry, Mil­ton, MA

7/10/13

CC: Parks and Recreation

Tina Mac­Connell, Patri­cia Hol­land, LMPA

Cost of pro­gram 2012 12 weeks (3 sam­ples $60.00) $720.00

Sam­pling and sam­ple deliv­ery 12 ($35.14/2 hrs) $843.00

Mileage $286.33 Total $1, 849.34