Borough of Mountain Lakes
Lakes Management Committee
February 2003 Issues
1) Continue
current successful lake treatment program.
2) Analyze five
year plan. Discussion: some of the
issues for the future; the feasibility of some public requests.
3) Look for long
term management solutions/successes.
4) Continue to
focus public awareness on the importance and fragility of our lakes. Discussion of holding H&S inserts to
half the months. Use Borough
Newsletter, Web site, other media as available.
5) Committee
membership/leadership.
Committee to
make suggestions at next meeting.
Discussion of
the Phosphorus meeting sponsored by Rutgers in Bordentown 2/26.
Borough Manager:
*Reviewed Canal
brush clearance by the Club.
*Cleaning up
Canal: There will be 5 points of entry
to the rest of the Canal for material removal.
Damming both ends and removing the water, November 2003.
*Dam repair at
Crystal Lake 90% done.
*Waiting for DEP
approval for the changed plan for the Birchwood dam. Discussion of planting options.
*Work to be done
on the Wildwood spillway to reduce leakage.
*Birchwood Dock
D to be completed this spring.
*Expression of
appreciation by a Grunden's Pond landowner for the improvements made.
* Lakes
Management budget 2003 $52,000.
Allied Biological:
(Allied
Biological is Mountain Lakes’ lakes management services provider.)
* Review of the
Northeast Aquatic Plant Management Conference.
Presentation topics:
Use of the herbicide Reward. There is a very large safety margin above the
level of use in Mountain Lakes.
http://msucares.com/pubs/infosheets/is1556.htm
Neither Mountain
Lakes nor Allied Biological endorses these sites. They are provided for ease of research only.
Use of weevils for milfoil control:
still spotty and unreliable.
Plant replacement program to
reintroduce desirable plants.
How to use early Spring treatments
for Curly Leaf Pond Weed.
The effectiveness of low dose alum
treatments. Need more data to evaluate
such low dose programs. Alum treatments
are one of the key programs in Mountain Lakes.
New herbicide reviewed. Selective to dicotyledonous plants and
Allied will be trying it on Purple Loosestrife, though not yet in Mountain
Lakes. For more facts on Purple Loosestrife,
an invasive, non-native, plant, see:
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/lysa1.htm
and http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1999/loosstrf/loosstrf.htm
Neither Mountain
Lakes nor Allied Biological endorses these sites. They are provided for ease of research only.
Allied has
applied for its 2003 permits.
Old Business:
* The Borough Council
has heard unanimous recommendations from the Health Commission, Environment
Commission, and Lakes Management Committee, and has placed goose control in the
budget.