Wayland committee sets $42,000 budget for Dudley Pond herbicide treatment

WAYLAND -- November 9, 2022, Wayland sets $42,000 target for Dudley Pond ProcellaCor treatment next June. The Surface Water Quality Committee, meeting Nov. 9 with Chair Thomas Klem, Thomas J. Largy and Carole Plumb, said the budget, supplied by Joe Onorato of Water and Wetland after SePRO's John Gosselin priced the chemical against consultant Wendy Gendron's depth map, runs roughly $20,000 below the town's last application three years ago. Bids go out in March; treatment is targeted for mid-June so the town's new mechanical harvester can begin work in early July. Largy advised against using the harvester at Heard Pond, saying the machine "does not do a very good job of swerving" between the roughly 600 remaining water chestnut plants. DPW has asked for a shoreline conveyor, but with about 147 open capital projects townwide and only $40,000 unspent from the harvester's $127,000 appropriation, Klem said the request is unlikely to advance soon.