Wayland Surface Water panel to seek extra funds for Heard Pond herbicide permit

WAYLAND -- February 12, 2024, Wayland Surface Water Quality Committee to ask Select Board for extra Heard Pond permit money. Chair Thomas Klem was authorized Feb. 12 to request roughly $1,500 in additional funds after the panel learned only $2,200 remained in its fiscal 2024 budget against a $3,750 SOLitude Lake Management quote to file a Notice of Intent for a ClearCast herbicide treatment this spring. Members also unanimously voted to seek release of $4,000 from the Dudley Pond Association gift fund to settle a disputed SOLitude invoice after the vendor treated 63 acres of Dudley Pond last year, 10 more than the 53 acres in the RFP, and later billed an additional $5,750. Member Thomas J. Largy warned that skipping water-chestnut treatment "comes back 10 times or worse the year after." Member Norm Arrow announced he is stepping down, and reported the association's new conveyor for the town harvester was accepted as a gift by the Select Board.