Picture this.
You are out in a kayak, skimming the water around a pristine, uninhabited lake in
Maine. What hits you is no camps dangling on the edge of the water, no lawn right down to the shores edge. natural bushes, trees. But no sign of man, weed and feed, or pressure treated docks.
Man messes up a lake, and lawns are the number one thing that lakes, if they could talk would gurgle angry excitement about. Many Maine lakes have local boards of folks to be pro-active not reactive to pressures that can kill or spoil a lake. The Drews Lakes Property Owner's Association (DLPOA) is a member of the Congress of Lakes Organization(Cola) an holds yearly meetings. In the past few years a $60,000 grant from the soil and water conservation district has helped with erosion of the roadways and undersized or missing culverts. Another grant has helped with adding vegetation and local soil stablization to protect the lake from silt, phosphorous and other non-source point pollution.
Watersheds, wood cutting operations miles away and water racing to the lake, contaminants being brought in thru streams all mess up the water quality for fish, swimmers, loons, everyone that enjoys a clean, milfoil free Maine lake.
This year's meeting is at the New Limerick town office, July 7th, at 6:30. We are lucky to have Bill Hersey, a well known local Maine soil tester/site evalulator on board to talk about the do's and don'ts and septic regulations in a Maine shoreland zone.
Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Protecting Maine's Resources, Being Good Steward to Our 6000 Lakes!
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Thanks for sharing your information with me this morning. Best of luck to you!