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SLUICE POND WEED TREATMENT
Wed, June 20,2007- beginning 9 am - Flax and Sluice Ponds:
Following treatment, both ponds CLOSED TO ALL WATER USES (including swimming, fishing and boating) UNTIL JUNE 26.
Use of water for drinking/cooking, irrigation and watering livestock prohibited for 5 days.
For Sluice: water from the two coves (northwest, northeast) should not be used for irrigation for 90 days. Additional "booster" treatments may be performed in these areas during June-August.
July 6, 2007 Pond Weed Treatment Sceduled
A second treatment for the fanwort, an invasive weed, is scheduled for July 6, 2007. Notices are not being posted for this treatment of invasive weeds.
Sluice Pond Association Award Event September 12, 2006
Lynn, MA – August 30, 2006 – Representative Mark Falzone will be awarding $40,000 in state legislative aid to help Sluice Pond Association and The City of Lynn with invasive weed clean-up of the Sluice and Flax Ponds during FY 2007. The award event will take place in the Great Hall (foyer) of Lynn City Hall on September 12 at 6:00. Also on hand to discuss their contribution to the restoration effort at Sluice Pond will be State Senator Thomas M. McGee, Representatives Steve Walsh and Robert Fennell, Lynn Mayor Chip Clancy, City Councilor Wayne Lozzi.
Representative Falzone said, “With the help and hard work of the entire Lynn legislative delegation we were able to bring this valuable state grant to Lynn and the Sluice Pond neighborhood. The cleanup of Sluice Pond will help create a healthier environment for all of us.”
"This is truly a community effort led by a public-private partnership of city and state officials as well as local residents who are committed to the restoration of Sluice Pond," said Dan McCarthy, who chairs the Pond Clean-Up Committee of the Sluice Pond Board of Directors and resides on Sluice Pond.
The effort to clean-up the weeds in Sluice Pond began in August of 2005 under the leadership of Paul Stonkus, President of the Sluice Pond Association. “Thanks to Wayne’s efforts we secured assistance with initial weed treatment of the native weeds from the City of Lynn and Lynn Water and Sewer Commission last month, but the assistance from the state is what we needed to afford the treatment of invasive weeds,” said Paul Stonkus, a local Realtor and pond abutter.
Residents and members of Sluice Pond Association contacted Aquatic Control Technologies last fall for an assessment of the weed problem that was choking the water flow into Sluice Pond from the Cedar Brook and threatening swimmers and wildlife along the entire pond shoreline. Because the pond had not received a chemical treatment in 4 years and had no maintenance plan in place, the native and invasive weeds were a nuisance for several years to boaters, fishermen and other members of the public who use the pond recreationally all four seasons of the year.
“We won’t wait until we have a problem again,” said Dave Mallette, Vice President of the Sluice Pond Association, “with $20,000 in weed treatment assistance from the legislature for the next two years, we will be able to get the weeds under control and then revert to a long term weed treatment plan that can be maintained with assistance from the city and our own fundraising efforts. Mallette, a nurse who owns a home at the pond, spear headed an eight month successful effort to get Sluice Pond Association registered as a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt, educational organization to foster more local contributions for the clean-up effort.
To learn more about Sluice Pond, the Sluice Pond Association or the weed treatment effort, visit http://www.sluice.org for more information.
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