Wayland water committee presses contractors on stalled Heard Pond work

WAYLAND -- August 20, 2024, Wayland's Surface Water Quality Committee aired contracting and communication breakdowns across three water bodies. Chair Thomas Klem said he could not reach the town's herbicide consultant on the Notice of Intent for Heard Pond, while a contract amendment for two extra days of water-chestnut hand-pulling by harvester Jeff Castellani remained unconfirmed past the early-August seed-drop deadline. "If he hasn't, it's too late," member Thomas J. Largy said. At Dudley Pond, Largy criticized harvester and skimmer equipment occupying Mansion Beach, "It's a town park", and questioned vessel registration. Member Carole Plumb reported a second cyanobacteria closure at Lake Cochituate and said a roughly 675,000-gallon Framingham sewage release reached the Sudbury River days before Wayland posted notice. The committee meets again Sept. 17.