The Lake Garfield Working Group (LGWG) held their monthly meeting in the town hall on Monday evening, December 17. Foremost on the agenda was an interview with Lake Buel property owners Kyle Pierce and Pete Hagen, who gave an account of the nature and history of the Lake Buel Tax District and its experience in controlling the pervasive weed growth in the lake. Both Kyle and Pete have lifelong association with Lake Buel and were a wealth of information concerning its social, economic, recreational, and ecological facets. Among the salient points of interest was that the Lake Buel Tax District raises $86,000 a year in taxes to pay for the forty hours per week of weed harvesting that takes place from Memorial Day to Labor Day…
Read MoreThe Lake Garfield Working Group (LGWG) held its monthly meeting at the Monterey Town Hall on October 15. The topic of milfoil mitigation dominated the agenda with a review of the season’s harvesting and a look towards funding for future endeavors.
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On September 19, 2018 New England Aquatic Services, LLC commenced the second phase of Lake Garfield’s 2018 Milfoil Removal Project. The focus of this phase of the project was to remove Eurasian Milfoil from a large growth area to begin reducing the size of the patch…
Read MoreThe Lake Garfield Working Group (LGWG) met again on September 11, as the summer season came to a close, and recreational use of Lake Garfield began to wind down in anticipation of cooler waters and the annual winter drawdown
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The lake will start its draw down on September 23. It will take 4 weeks for the…
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