In the June 21st, 2012 edition of the Granite State News is a wonderful article discussing the steps being undertaken to protect the waters of Mirror Lake. Dusty Davies has worked diligently to bring state and local government bodies together in a common mindset, that of protecting the waters of the Mirror Lake Watershed. The […]
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The Mirror Lake Watershed Management Plan (WMP) is a comprehensive diagnostic study of Mirror Lake’s watershed and analysis of the quality of Mirror Lake. It provides projections of future conditions of the lake as well as an on-going remediation program to ensure Mirror Lake’s long term water quality. The WMP was funded, in 2010, by a Section 319
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Ice fishing can be an educational experience. BY ELISSA PAQUETTE Staff Writer, Granite State News TUFTONBORO — Tuftonboro resident and Alton Central School 4th grade teacher Paul Thornton has been taking students out onto Mirror Lake for ice-fishing for 10 years. Around 30 parents and volunteers joined the nearly 50 excited children for this year’s
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Watershed presentation At a staff meeting on Oct. 25, Dusty Davies, president of the Mirror Lake Protective Association, gave a power point presentation to Chip Maxfield and agents from Maxfield Real Estate, describing the actions the Association has taken and is continuing to take in the Mirror Lake watershed. These efforts, many of them by property owner volunteers,
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The NH Environmental Educators 2012 conference is scheduled for 3-14-2012 and the theme is “Meeting Standards with Citizen Science: Engaging Students and the Public through Data Collection”. If you have done any work involving local schools with monitoring activities, please consider submitting a proposal for a presentation or poster at the conference. If
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Good news! MLPA has been selected to receive another Section 319 Clean Water Act grant from NH DES. Read the excerpt from the Granite State News below and see if a storm water improvement project is coming to your neighborhood! Dusty Davies, President, MLPA DES Grant MLPA October 20, 2011
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Below is a link to excerpts from the October 6th & 13th issues of The Granite State News regarding MLPA’s efforts to address the runoff issues on Lang Pond Road into Mirror Lake. You will recall that this was identified as a high priority (i.e. high source of phosphorus runoff into the lake) in the Watershed
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WOLFEBORO, NH — On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 7:30 p.m., in the Kingswood Arts Center, a report on the quality of Mirror Lake’s water will be presented to the public by Geosyntec Consultants, environmental advisors from Acton, Mass., and the Mirror Lake Protective Association (MLPA). This report is the result of extensive data collection
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Tuftonboro, NH — The 2011 Annual Meeting for the Mirror Lake Protective Association is scheduled for Saturday, June 25, 2011, at 9:00am at the Tuftonboro Town House which is located at 247 Middle Road in Tuftonboro, NH. Click the link below for the Notice of Annual Meeting from the MLPA Board of Directors