Wake Boat Update

This message came from JPA President Joe Hebert today:  

      I am attaching two separate mailings we recently received. The first is a denial of our petition to ban wake sports on Joe's Pond. It is important to note that the DEC DENIED ALL PETITIONS from the other lake associations who also submitted a proposal. What they have done is submit proposed changes to the use of wake boats for sports activities which are listed in the second attachment.  Please read the proposed changes closely. 

      In essence, if accepted, the new rules would ban the use of wake sporting activity on Joes Pond. This is primarily based on an expansion from 50 to 100 continuous acres and a 3000 foot runway, neither of which are possible on Joe's Pond.

     In the proposed changes document there is also a link to the public hearing schedule which the DEC plans this summer. I would emphasize  that anyone who has a position either way on this issue take the opportunity to attend one of the meetings so that  your opinion will be heard.

Thank you

Joe Hebert

President JPA 

 

From: Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation Agency of Natural Resources

Watershed Management Division (See copy, page 1 and 2 below)

Summary of Proposed Changes to Vermont's Use of Waterways  (You need to click on "File - pdf" after you open this site.)

        

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This came from Suzanne Masland after reading previous posts here about converting milfoil into fertilizer:

 

 Hi Jane, 

I read with interest your post recently on the blog concerning milfoil as a fertilizer, and I can attest that indeed it is a wonderful fertilizer. 

When milfoil was harvested from Lake Fairlee I lived in Thetford and we would go and collect the milfoil on a regular basis and use it in our garden. It was piled up at a safe location from the water near the fishing access on Lake Fairlee and several people would collect it and use it as fertilizer in their garden. As you laid it down it had an interesting odor which disappeared quickly and the milfoil worked it's way into the soil. 

Suzanne 

Thanks, Suzanne!

So here's another interesting story that I found on WCAX today - using human urine for fertilizer.  Turns out, lots of people have been doing that for years - in one way or another. I have heard about using human urine to deter deer and bears from raiding your property, but I hadn't known about the fertilizer advantage. I guess diluting it with water would maybe make it ok, but I can't help thinking in summer heat it would probably be pretty odiferous. I recall passing some alleyways in Bucharest, Romania - and in some American cities, and the urine stench was awful. I suppose chamber pots may make a comeback if this becomes a new gardening fad.

Hot, hot, hot today. My house stayed nice and cool until around 5 o'clock, and then I had to turn on my heat exchanger. At one point this morning I went out onto the porch to get warmed up! It will cool down tonight and I can open the house up again. Nice cool air sweeps down the hill in back of my house at night, and I do appreciate that. I think it has to do with so many natural springs in the woods on that hillside. Stay cool, be safe.