Newsletter Highlights
Our latest newsletter is available as a PDF.The Lake Waramaug Task Force has posted News Updates on new invasive aquatic plants.
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Please mark your calendar now and plan to attend our 2009 "end of summer" meeting on Sunday, September 13 at 2:00 p.m. at the Lake Waramaug Country Club.
LAKE EVENTS
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Friday, June 19th at 6:00 p.m. |
9th Annual Lake Waramaug Triathlon; registration deadline is Wednesday, June 17 at 11:59 p.m. For more information, go to www.endureitmultisports.com | FIREWORKS! Saturday, July 4th at 9:30 p.m. (Flares at 9:00) |
Flares will be available for purchase at our June 14 meeting and following the meeting date (while supplies last) at Boulders Inn, Hopkins Inn and County Wine & Spirits. If there is to be significant weather just prior to fireworks time, the Town of Warren's Fire Marshal will decided whether to postpone. If you would like to be notified if the fireworks are postponed, sign up for the Association's email list. (Rain date: Sunday, July 5.) | Sunday, Sept. 13th at 2:00 p.m. |
"End of Summer" membership meeting of the Association at Lake Waramaug Country Club |
The following items are from our Spring 2008 newsletter.
George Knoecklein's PowerPoint presentation from the June 2008 meeting is available here. If you don't have it, you can download the PowerPoint Viewer.LWTF has also posted an alert regarding phosphate-based dishwasher detergents.
EMAIL NOTIFICATION
From time to time, we notify our membership by email of town and commission meetings and other events. If you would like to be notified, please send an email to Paul Frank at prf157@charter.net with "notify me" in the subject line.
The following items are from our Fall 2007 newsletter.
DONATIONS OF LAND AND CONSERVATION EASEMENTSto Protect Lake Waramaug and the Surrounding Area
Consider the need to protect ridgelines and viewscapes and to preserve open space. There are special federal tax incentives for such donations in effect only until December 31, 2009, which raise the limit of deductions a landowner can take in any year to 50% of Adjusted Gross Income (from 30%) and increase the number of years over which such deductions can be taken to 16 (from 6) years. Call Tom McGowan at 860-567-0555 or Susan Payne at 860-868-9348 to explore these opportunities.
CAUTION TO SWIMMERS
There continue to be observations of swimmers far out in the lake where they are exposed
to the life-threatening dangers posed by passing motorboats from which the swimmer cannot be seen. If you intend to swim at more than a customary short distance from the shore, you risk serious bodily harm unless you are accompanied by a spotter boat which will divert other watercraft.
ROAD AND TRAFFIC CONDITIONS
"A scenic detour on a sunny Sunday ended abruptly for a motorcyclist and his passenger
when they struck a [boat] trailer being towed by a Hummer on a twisty lakeside road," reported the Waterbury Republican-American on July 23. The road is West Shore Road, and the location of the accident was the notorious narrow blind curve at Cheeree Point. There were significant personal injuries.
Betty Sutter of our Board has been in touch with the Connecticut Department of Transportation (the roads around the lake are Connecticut State roads) and a representative has scheduled a visit to view the lake roads. Although speed was apparently not a causative factor in this accident, we believe that a reduction in the 25 miles per hour limit at this location is essential and that the warning signage should be improved to alert drivers unfamiliar with the road to the danger. Other matters to be discussed with the State include possible limitation of the dimensions of vehicles permitted to use West Shore Road (large food delivery and other sizable trucks and buses and smaller trucks carrying trailers for boats and mowing equipment routinely go over the yellow line lane divider at Cheeree Point and other curves), and the installation of road mirrors and speed bumps. It has also been suggested that consideration be given to making the lake road one way, at least at certain peak periods.
PROTECTIVE BUFFER STRIP PLANTING
Please visit the Lecher property at 47 West Shore Road to see the model buffer planting sponsored by the Lake Waramaug Task Force (with the support of the Association, the Washington Environmental Council and the Washington Garden Club). Consisting of native trees, shrubs, flowering plants and grasses, the strip is designed to protect the water quality of the lake by catching and absorbing storm water runoff and inhibiting soil erosion. A lawn does not protect the lake. You can download a list of the plantings used there, to use in your own yard.
INLAND WETLANDS AND ZONING REGULATIONS
A comprehensive system of regulations designed to protect Lake Waramaug affects construction of new structures and alteration of existing structures at the lakeside and beyond. Zoning regulations have detailed requirements in this respect for buildings, other structures, fences and other visual barriers and docks. In addition, most work involving the lake and land within 100 feet of the lake shore (and beyond in many instances) is regulated by the Inland Wetlands Commissions of the three towns. For the protection and preservation of Lake Waramaug, check with the land use officials and wetlands enforcement officials in your town before commencing any work.
ADDRESS IDENTIFICATION FOR EMERGENCY PERSONNEL
Ambulance, fire and police services cannot quickly find your home unless you have clearly marked your street number on some object close to the road. Washington requires such identification by ordinance, but common sense dictates that every home should be so identified. The dock regulations adopted by Warren and Washington similarly require house number identification in numerals at least three inches high on the lake side of docks and floats, since Marine Patrol assistance will need to identify your property from the water. And such visible identification on the lake frontage itself will assist emergency personnel. Compliance with these simple provisions may save your life.
OWNER IDENTIFICATION FOR DOCKS AND BOATS
Docks and small watercraft are set adrift by storms and other events in every season. If you have marked your name and address or telephone number in a conspicuous place on the item, your chances of seeing it again will be vastly improved. The Association, through volunteers Harold Wellings and Lynn Baldwin (868-0184), provides a central information source for "lost and found" items. Continued thanks to them for this ongoing effort.
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