Lake Assoc. Message

A message from the Messalonskee lake Accoc.


Dear Messalonskee Lake Association Member,

The summer is off and running and the Lake Association has been
active on several fronts:

Milfoil Management Plan - The Lake Association has drafted a milfoil
management plan that documents our plans for Educating, Monitoring
and helping to Mitigate the spread of milfoil on the lake. This will
be emailed to you in the next few weeks once it is complete for your
review. In addition to this work we are continuing to monitor the
Milfoil in the lake. In early June the Lake Association in
conjunction with the State of Maine placed seven additional Milfoil
Buoys in the lake. Two of these are on the Northern (Oakland) end
and Five were in the Southern end (Belgrade) end. We also continue
to support the Courtesy Boat Inspections being conducted at the
Oakland and Sidney public boat landings.

Milfoil and Safety Zone information packet - The Lake Association has
prepared 200 information packets to be given out to boaters on the
lake this summer. The packet consists of a map pf the Milfoil and
Safety Zones mentioned above, along with other boat, navigation and
fishing information. You can see a copy of the map that has been
included by going to the website and looking at the NEWS items, or by
clicking on this link -

http://www.snowpond.org/Milfoil_Safety_Zones.pdf

Summer Lake Patrol - We have been working all winter with the Town of
Oakland to plan an early start to the Lake Safety Patrol. This year
the Lake Patrol will cover every good weather weekend between June
14th and September 1st, including some additional coverage over the
busy 4th of July week. The Oakland Police Department will be
manning the boat during these Safety Patrols.

REMINDER - If you have not paid your dues yet for 2008, please go to
the website and renew online or send your dues ($15.00 Individual,
$25.00 Family, or other special amount) to SP/MLA Post Office Box 532,
Oakland, Me 04963

We hope you will continue to support the Messalonskee Lake
Association and that you will have a very wonderful Summer on the
lake

Mike Willey
President, Messalonskee Lake Association