Lake Hosts Because of your generous support of the Moore’s Matching Funds drive, we are able to have two paid Lake Hosts at the boat ramp full days on the weekends. Without those of you that contributed this could not have happened. Because of the economy the NHLA was only able to give us a $1000 grant this year which is down from our 2009 grant of $1500. We have 13 Volunteers manning the ramp during the week - we need more! There are many gaps in our coverage. The state-wide Lake Host program is off to a great start with 24 “saves” this year with one exotic weed being from OUR LAKE. Everyone should sit up and take notice. Pleasant Lake is surrounded by infected lakes. Soon our lake could be infested by a weed hitchhiking on a boat or trailer that has been on another lake. The DES feels that because of the early ice out that it will be a mean milfoil year. WHEN: JUNE 26TH 9 AM - 11 AM WHERE: DEERFIELD TOWN HALL SPEAKER - Jared Teutsch New Hampshire Lakes Assoc. Come meet your neighbors. Vote on the 2010/2011 slate of officers & directors. Hear Jared speak on the NHLA expanded programs, legislation and what more we can do for Pleasant Lake. ANNUAL MEETING Can you spare 2 hours? It would be nice to see you. 2009 BOAT PARADE Pleasant Ponderings June 2010 Thanks to ALL our 13 Volunteer Lake Hosts!
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Lake Hosts
Because of your generous support of
the Moore’s Matching Funds drive, we are able to have two paid Lake Hosts at the boat ramp full days on the weekends. Without those of you that contributed this could not have happened. Because of the economy the NHLA was only able to give us a $1000 grant this year which is down from our 2009 grant of $1500. We have 13 Volunteers manning the ramp during the week - we need more! There are many gaps in our coverage.The state-wide Lake Host program is off to a great start with 24 “saves” this year with one exotic weed being from OUR LAKE. Everyone should sit up and take notice. Pleasant Lake is surrounded by infected lakes. Soon our lake could be infested by a weed hitchhiking on a boat or trailer that has been on another lake. The DES feels that because of the early ice out that it will be a mean milfoil year.
WHEN: JUNE 26TH 9 AM - 11 AM
WHERE: DEERFIELD TOWN HALL
SPEAKER - Jared TeutschNew Hampshire Lakes Assoc.
Come meet your neighbors.
Vote on the 2010/2011 slate of officers & directors.
Hear Jared speak on the NHLA expanded programs, legislation and what more we can do for Pleasant Lake.
ANNUAL MEETINGCan you spare 2 hours? It would be nice to see you.
2009
BOAT PARADE
Pleasant PonderingsJune 2010
Thanks to ALL
our 13 Volunteer
Lake Hosts!
Fireworks!
Enjoy the Fireworks and Protect your Lake!
by Andrea LaMoreaux, NH LAKES Education Director
If your shoreline neighborhood is anything like mine, July 4th and your favorite lake go together like baseball and apple pie. Setting off fireworks along the shoreline is a ritual in my neighborhood every July 4th.
Fireworks pollute our lakes.
It wasn’t until recently that I learned exactly how fireworks pollute the lake. Of course I remember spending many mornings after July 4th picking up the refuse strewn across the beach from the dazzling pyrotechnic display the night before—small bits of brown cardboard tubes partially blackened by soot, plastic caps and cylinders of all shapes and sizes and in various stages of being melted, and thin metal rods burnt to a crisp. During the next week or two, I would find more bits of refuse in the lake while snorkeling around searching for critters. But, I never realized what else, besides litter, our firework fun was contributing to our lake.
Fireworks are composed of many different elements and each element contributes to the propellant, color or sound of the display. Not surprisingly, some of these elements are dangerous and even toxic to human health. What I didn’t know is that fireworks often contain trace amounts of phosphorus—the element that aquatic plants and algae in our lakes need to grow. While each individual firework may contain only a small amount of phosphorus, every little bit of phosphorus added by humans into a lake, whether it is from fertilizers, detergents, septic systems, and, yes, even fireworks, adds to the problems associated with “phosphorus pollution” in our lakes. And, just think of all the fireworks that each shoreline neighborhood may shoot out over their lake throughout an entire summer. All the phosphorus from each of the thousands of individual fireworks shot over your favorite lake this summer could become a significant source of pollution!
Phosphorus pollution hurts our lakes and our wallets.
Too much phosphorus accelerates the natural aging process of a lake, and can result in unsightly and smelly algal blooms and even toxic bacterial blooms! (You may have heard that toxic “cyanobacteria” blooms have already occurred in a few New Hampshire lakes this summer.) When algal and cyanobacteria blooms decompose, the oxygen in the lake can be used up, causing fish and other aquatic organisms that rely on this vital compound to perish.
Not only do algal and cyanobacteria blooms negatively affect the lake ecosystem, these types of blooms can also result in economic problems for lakeside communities. Algal and cyanobacteria blooms can cause taste and odor problems in drinking water which results in increased water treatment costs, decreased shoreline property values which negatively affects the local economy (and, as a result, may cause the property taxes on non-shoreline properties in the community to increase!) and negatively affects tourism.
You can enjoy fireworks and protect your lake!
Being the lake-protectionist that I am, ever since I found out about the detrimental impact that fireworks can have on our lake, I have been trying to convince my shoreline neighbors to ban the annual event. Not surprisingly, old habits die hard, and my neighbors continue to carry on the tradition, but it has changed, just a bit. Now, instead of shooting off the display over the lake, the rockets and missiles are aimed away from the lake. And, while the flares are still placed around the shoreline as dusk nears, they are now placed a few feet back from the water’s edge and a metal pan is placed below to catch the ashes.
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BOAT PARADE
JULY 4, 2010
MEET IN SOUTH COVE AT 2 PM.
FOLLOW LEAD BOAT PAST VIEWING DECK AT COTE’S.(GRAY HOUSE ON WEST SHORE WITH PHOTOGRAPHER ON DOCK)
DON’T FORGET TO RETURN TO COTE’S FOR YOUR FREE PICTURE.
IT’S GREAT FAMILY FUN!
Meet Our Lake HostsAriel Abbott, 18 yrs. old
★Attends Fitchburg State College majoring in nursing.
★Involved in clubs & activities on campus including hall staff, leadership academy, Sigma Sigma Sigma National Sorority and the Fitchburg Activities board.
★Goal - to be a traveling nurse or work in a large hospital.
★Loves being outside, playing sports & doing anything adventurous.
Ariel has been very busy.... she inspected 53 boats in one day on Memorial Day Weekend! Wow!
ANNUAL MEETING June 26th, 2010
9 - 11 AMDeerfield Town Hall
2010 FINS ‘N FUNFISHING EVENT
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CHECK WEBSITE FOR FORMS AND RULES!!
Have you ever wondered how the Pleasant Lake Association got
started? Richard Chandler recently shared a letter his father
Edmond had written to his “summer neighbors”.
Governor Dwinell had just appointed a commission and a
public hearing was scheduled for May 5, 1958 to discuss a “major
highway from Route 107 in Deerfield and continuing around the Lake Pleasant by its outlet,
through The Gulf, and over “Blakes Hill” to the main road
(Route 202).” There was also a State Park being considered in connection with the highway.
Edmond Chandler’s letter to his summer neighbors said that “it
was most unfortunate that there is no active organization at
present to represent and protect the residents about the lake. This
was a personal plug for rapid activation of a Pleasant Pond
Association.
A copy of the notice from Edmond Chandler is available on
our web site.
We love getting input on historical events related to Pleasant Lake.
If you have any information please consider sharing it with
us.
THE FORMATION OF THE PLA
www.pleasantlakenh.org
PLEASANT PONDERINGS - page 3
PLEASANT LAKE ASSOCIATION IS A 501 3C
AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.
Volunteer Lake Hosts Needed
Contact Tom Brennan -463-5664
★ Lake Host Daniel Farrelly will be featured in the next Ponderings.
