The AWWA Youth Conservation Corps(YCC) started the Great East Lake Project on July 6th and finished on the 7th. They worked with the Mousam Lake YCC (MLYCC) to put in 6 steps and a meandering path bordered by native plantings. The landscape plan, designed by Duane Snyder of MLYCC, redirects the runoff to planted and mulched areas, and prevents the hillside from eroding into the lake.

The project is finished and the results are beautiful. This pilot project is on Timlin Road on the north shore of GEL in Acton, ME. From the lake, it is the beautiful early 1900’s era brown cottage with green accents in the eastern portion of Horne’s cove. You will notice the new plantings and lots of mulch.

Please drive by or boat by the site to see what a beautiful solution the YCC has created to solve an erosion problem. Also we hope to set up a day for viewing by the general public, sometime this year.

Also, check out your own property or camp road to see if there are any erosion problems that could be solved by the YCC next year. We will be running a full 6-7 week program next year and will be selecting a number of projects to complete on each of the six lakes in the Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance. The technical director will also be able to design solutions for additional sites that property owners can implement themselves.

The Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance has completed it’s second pilot project of 2005. The project on Pine River Pond at the Tsakiris property on Grenier Road, was designed to prevent road water runoff from washing sand, soil and other pollutants into the water. It also involved the use of Bio-logs made of coconut fiber to reinforce the eroding shore front. The two photos below show the before views. The two in the middle show the work in progress and the bottom two show the completed views. Please stop by to see the results.