What a great day for a watershed survey! On Saturday, June 13th (the one sunny day of the week!) 46 volunteers and technical leaders fanned out around the Great East and Lake Ivanhoe watersheds in 10 teams to begin the watershed survey to identify sources of erosion that contribute pollution to the lakes. They made terrific progress and will complete the survey by the end of June. The data will be compiled and the full reports should be completed by late 2009. Letters will be sent to all landowners with identified issues offering the assistance of AWWA to find solutions. The final reports will be distributed to the lake associations and the Towns.

All the teams reported that they were welcomed by curious landowners and helped find a number of problems that be remedied with assistance from the AWWA YCC or be recommended for more extensive projects. There were many areas around the lakes with naturalized buffers that do a great job of filtering the stormwater runoff.

The day included a two-hour training presentation at the Acton Congregational Church and then 4 -5 hours in the field practicing the survey techniques and identifying sites in need of assistance.

Thank you Technical Leaders:

Thank you Volunteer Surveyors:

We are grateful for the generous donations of meeting space by the Acton Congregational Church and fruit and juice from the Lovell Lake Food Center.