Morses Pond Management Plan

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• A project sponsored by the Town of Wellesley and
  the Community Preservation Committee
• Determine the most appropriate course of action
  to meet use objectives as defined by community
  goals.
• Utilize a large body of existing data with only
  essential additional field effort

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Management Plan Timeline

• Determine goals and priorities Sept-Dec 2004
• Collect in-lake information Sept-Oct 2004
• Collect watershed information Oct-Dec 2004
• Evaluate management options Dec 2004 Jan 2005
• Prepare preliminary plan Feb-Mar 2005 (public
  meetings included)
• Refine plan AprJun 2005 (public meetings
  included)

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Management Issues
• Determine goals and priorities
• Improve pond water quality
• Control flows
• Reduce algal blooms
• Reduce invasive species
• Control native species

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Determine goals and priorities
• Thats what tonight is for, and we will come back
  to this
• But first a little background

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Improve pond water quality

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Control flows

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Reduce algal blooms

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Reduce invasive species

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Control native species

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Subjects of Management Goals
• Water supply (town wells)
• Contact recreation (swimming)
• Flood control (holding water)
• Environment/wildlife protection (habitat)
• Fishing (catching fish)
• Non-motorized boating (paddling, rowing, sailing)
• Non-contact recreation (passive uses, education)

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• The need for priorities
• Regulatory restrictions apply for use as drinking
  water and contact recreation
• More people participate in some uses than others
• Cost of management can be high funding limits
  necessitate some order of actions
• Some uses may be mutually exclusive or
  antagonistic in time or space

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Water supply (town wells)

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Contact recreation (swimming)

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Flood control (holding water)

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Environment/wildlife protection (habitat)

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Fishing (catching fish)

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Non-motorized boating (paddling, rowing, sailing)

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Non-contact recreation (passive uses, education)

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• OK, time for your thoughts on goals and
  priorities and how they interact with management
  needs

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Morses Pond Management Plan

• Subjects of Management Goals
• Water supply (town wells)
• Contact recreation (swimming)
• Flood control (holding water)
• Environment/wildlife protection (habitat)
• Fishing (catching fish)
• Non-motorized boating (paddling, rowing, sailing)
• Non-contact recreation (passive uses, education)

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Morses Pond Management

• Options to be considered

Stormwater management
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Morses Pond Management

• Options to be considered

In-lake wetland treatment
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Morses Pond Management

• Options to be considered

Nutrient inactivation
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Morses Pond Management

• Options to be considered

Dredging
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Morses Pond Management

• Options to be considered

Drawdown
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Morses Pond Management

• Options to be considered

Herbicides
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Morses Pond Management

• Options to be considered