Rogers Lake Authority - Regular Meeting
The Rogers Lake Authority approved previous meeting statements, discussed July expenses and patrol boat staffing, including potential wage increases. They reviewed the Quick Response Plan, noting negative DNA test results for invasive species, and raised concerns about dam safety and a pending water deviation permit.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- Rogers Lake Authority
- Meeting Type
- Rogers Lake Authority
- Location
- Old Lyme, CT
- Meeting Date
- August 12, 2026
Transcript
262 sections
Dichiaro aperta la seduta. Per il 18 agosto, il 12.
Quasi.
Perché ho scritto... Oh, perché era un'altra riunione. Ah, ok. Grazie. Abbiamo il numero legale per... Il testo di... Due, giusto.
Che percentuale di Q?
I think we need two thirds. Here it is. Good.
We were asking for a legal number. We thought we saw you coming, but then...
I was just replying to emails. Any financial data? So, have you had the opportunity to look at the last meeting's statements? Any comments or questions?
I would propose to... ...make a motion to accept the last meeting's statements as they are? Approved.
Who's in favor? The motion is approved. At the end of the appearances there are all except Janelle. For the expenses of the month of July. We had the usual secretary expenses, the cost of seasonal work, and the reimbursement for the equipment for the tests of the H2Opan as for the budget joel I also received today an email from the university of maine and I The invoice, the original invoice for... I sent it to the financial office on July 1st, so apparently it was not paid. So I... I sent an email to Tracy and I'll try to understand why, since there seems to be another invoice for this month.
when I saw it I thought the cost was doubled but the cost is the same and that we did not pay it the email I sent was stolen I will try to understand why it was not paid also approve the second one and yes I have to recover those passwords again so I have the invoice
It would be debited under the H2O tests.
We have enough funds.
We have enough funds.
And this accounting would take place at the end of the year.
No, this is for the month of July.
This is the new fiscal year.
This is the new fiscal year. Ah, ok.
If I gave you the right one. 10 August.
there is a slight misalignment in the sense that I receive the data of July as preliminary but I did not receive the final balance sorry for June I do not have the end-of-year consumptive and however on the same line I requested the report for the semi-emolio 880 for capital improvements, i.e. the DIGA and the authorizations. By the way, the question will be discussed at the financial meeting on Tuesday. I should go now. Thank you.
As for the expenses that may be... ...will be reported by 6th September.
Can I send you the documentation I presented, if it can be useful?
No, don't worry, because I'll see it there.
Yes, thank you. I mean, it was approved last time, it's a report from the previous year.
But the treatment of the infestation herbs that we have just done, will that be applied to the budget of this year?
That will be applied to the budget of this year. We had 1,650 dollars. that I had reported last year for the investigation and I presented it and the practice went on so it should be covered I think I have reset that report yes but the treatment costs a lot more the treatment for infectious diseases was 9,100 euros so it will be fine and we will also have another 4,000 dollars for the September investigation grid the end of so in the table that is inserted in the response plan quick I read well the September investigation was 1650 I expected it to be 4000 then I made a mistake the 1750 investigation is the one that is done in July that could have said or I read it wrong it is very likely that he made confusion so our usual investigation that we have always done traditionally is of 1750 and the grid investigation, which for us will be new, is of $4,000. I think I spoke the last time to try to report how much was left for the treatment of herbs, which was about $5,000. I started writing it and I realized that I did not have a good motivation. So I thought it was better to go back to asking for funds when we had a real purpose instead of putting only money in the bank. It doesn't seem like you need those 15,000. Yes, it should be enough. In addition, our water tests will cost less than expected, so if necessary we can ask for a reallocation. So, is this the point on our expenses? Any questions?
I will have some other water on arrival.
Expedition and all the rest. I know. They have already paid. I should have already received two payments. Morgan has presented the request for... and he asked me on Monday, which is the closing time of the pay period. So instead of submitting the paper for approval, I sent it.
All right. But when I talked to him in the water, he didn't seem too worried about the timing and everything else. He has no plans to spend it. I sent it because it must be counted in your budget. Yes.
What did you say? No, you said what will be the current cost of the treatment for the wings?
The cost of the treatment was 9,130.
It also includes when they came back to do a couple of... Including the total.
Originally we had about... 150. And we had approved a couple of meetings ago.
You had authorized me to approve up to 12,000. So 9,000 had already been approved.
Updates on the Patron boat. Mike Secura, who you know well, will take the turn of Tuesday and Thursday, which was free. because Mark went to work at the electric boat. Apart from this, it seems that things are going well. Friday, Friday evening and Saturday. By the way, I noticed that The minimum wage in Connecticut now is about 17 something. I think for the next budget we should raise our...
I thought it would increase in January. Well, immediately in January.
I think there is a moving scale for periodic increases in recent years. Because we have seen that since we have many... But I think the new one could be in January.
I just think we should do it to keep attracting and keeping people. Anyway. We pay 25 dollars per hour. Yes. But I mean, when we couldn't find anyone for work, originally we were at the minimum wage and it didn't go very well. Exactly. So you want to get ahead. I want to get ahead.
And make it gratifying for people.
This is an interesting problem, because I don't know how much you need to classify.
But there are so few hours.
Is this the problem? So, hold on.
People don't see us. No, I think it's... An extra bonus that really makes a difference in their lives.
Well, I think it's enough to make some money. I mean, people do it, so... I presume.
How difficult is it to find? I had a bit of a change in this... Obviously we can't compete with the B, right?
No, we don't compete with the B. You know, people don't line up at my door, you know, to have... We don't have much interest.
It has always been through a password, or someone I know, or something like that.
We were lucky to have...
Yes, actually all those we have, except John, who has been with us since... three years ago, I think it came from an original announcement on Indeed and everyone else with us. They were reported or they knew... You know, they live on the lake or they know the lake.
And you think that increasing...
I think... Just for the people, I just wanted to get your point back. I thought it would be useful to entertain people. I mean, I'm not here to give up a Saturday or a Sunday. We want to make it gratifying. You know... 25 dollars is... You know, how much would you want to give up your Saturday? Everyone in a different position.
I give up my Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for the same exact pay to teach people how to row and sometimes I get irritated for this too.
It's 4% more or less. So if 25 are raised to 26, it's 4%. It's the people we're satisfied with. It's a way of saying we're happy.
So I agree to try to keep people by increasing their salaries. They have a certain type of experience. It's one thing. So we will discard the idea of taking on boys or more young people, or how many young people we will take on.
Our previous experience was that people didn't respect boys.
Boys didn't show up. Then there was the problem of boys who treated it as a normal job or students in university age. And on the other hand, adults who didn't respond to the twenties in terms of... You know, trying to tell them what to do. In addition, those people were often not willing to confront someone or even interact. Having older people has worked much better in the last two years.
Because I want to say, I'm just exploring the idea, because younger people could be more likely to...
I want to say, I think... Yes, I... SEM has really worked.
I was going to say that I think it's the same topic for young people. How are things going with SEM?
It's going well. I mean... How old is it? It's the third year of university. She is studying to become a police officer. So she went out on patrol with the police officers. So she knows how to treat people calmly. Autorevole. You know, that's probably a point to reflect on. But... Shall we give them some chips? No. Do you mean monitors?
Well, we're talking about two different things. When I answered that question, I was thinking about the control, but you... Also about monitors. No. No, let's not go to the patrols.
I wasn't in the lights or the sirens.
We can't do it.
I mean, I mean... Nobody told me to have had, none of the patrols told me to have had difficulty to get attention.
And regarding your other point of error, we can say that Samantha is quite good at confronting people.
Well, she didn't do it. All those she met so far, I think, have been fine, but no one has rejected her or... But my point was that the other patrolmen could say, I had no problem dealing with people... Our patrolmen must constantly... ...talk with people. You don't know most of them. Sometimes they go in the wrong direction. But they will do it. They simply... Yes, they are talking to people.
That guy said that when he had difficulty making people listen, he would take the phone and they would behave well with each other. They thought, they thought the same things.
A quick response plan.
I only have it as a signpost.
We still have it.
Last time I worked on the bubble. It works pretty well. The only thing that was missing was to redo and simplify the flow diagram as a kind of visual aid for the quick response. I printed it and if you like it, thank you.
I'll keep going. They're all there. Yes, I think we're set like this.
And I can replace or correct the number 4000 if you were able to see. So very quickly, you know, if a DNA test is positive or below that, if it is found a suspicious drill, you proceed to the right, you perform the DNA test or you analyze the photos and you get a confirmation if it is a physical sample that and each of these would lead to the IDRIL-A confirmed in the frame at the top right that would trigger an Intercept point investigation on the entire lake looking specifically for the IDRIL-A that we programmed in September if it is imminent immediately after the relief then we are in place but if it is found in May we should not wait we could reprogram And if it was October, immediately after September, we would have to get a budget of 4,000 to make another one. So these are the points of reference while we are here. Based on what is established there, the treatment plan, the choice of herbicides and costs. While I say it, I wonder if I had found a fight, if it should not be treated immediately anyway, and then do an investigation to see if it needs more. These are things we could discuss at the moment. and then ask for funds for the treatment based on the plan and program the treatment using the existing permit if it is a small amount and look for additional permits and if it is a large treatment of sonar that would be difficult to obtain we hope not to reach this right yes we hope not we are only from a 4.3 place no I mean that is what you have to do if it is so it will only require
it is difficult to keep it significant we have there are a couple of problems one that is very expensive because it covers a vast area and two we have some mollusks we have the mollusks of fresh water in the pond which are a problem with the sonar nick mcmahon thinks he can find a solution but it is not automatic that it is approved the FIP diagram is not 100% complete every permutation but it is a kind of visual guide for I think it is very close good simple base
Excuse me, where, or where, yes.
Because it's just a recommendation from elected people. It can be blind or not blind.
It's not that, it's not there.
Well, I think so. Your recommendation is a financial recommendation.
A recommendation of something different, because this is... and you have to say oh it's finance I'm sorry I don't know how to read I'll be quiet now so it's fine so I'll correct the 4000 I'll insert this and I'll send it imagine you mark and janelle do the other little things great yes perfect I think we can proceed and I forgot to mention the last time I had a good discussion with the people of Twin Lakes that Grindboggle has organized and has been with their invasive species experts including I think a member of their equivalent of the RLA plus a woman who have taken and she takes care of all that lake or that basin And it was mainly U. Grant introduced the call, then had to take off for another one, but a beautiful discussion with the gentlemen of Twin Lakes, whose name I forget, and the woman who, you know, they asked me about what we do for DNA tests, you know, simple things like freezing before shipping, how to ship, things like that. they will do tests around their lake I have not yet had results I will send them an email to say that we have just received our results are negative received today and see the negative is a good two I will see a little at what point they are but it was really a nice discussion and I think they examined the documentation that I had sent them which is basic and they mentioned their in the autumn meeting in the one in Arsena they will probably invite us they saw us fantastic will they go to the main university? yes they talked to them I suggested that if they have the budget they seek positive control in other words if we sent them the champions they are negative it means that we do not have them unless they are not seeing it which we do not know for sure
So we didn't send the positive control.
I was hesitant to go to a place where we know it exists. I don't want to risk bringing it back. I could be very careful.
I don't want to immerse my payment in the CAIA.
But I know people in other areas who have it and could do the same. So they told me, at the risk of spending your money, I would like to suggest that you divide things. Yes, something we could do.
Ah, a good connection there... I met you, and I think I met you at the Lai Confederation.
Yes, that was Grand. And another guy... I'm losing the names. The good news from them is that, as far as they know, they don't have it. They certainly don't know they don't have it, but at least they see traces of it.
This is the first time I've heard it.
Do you want to do some tests? To confirm if they actually don't have it. And I thought they could test it. You know, if you see plants here, the test detects it. And if you don't see the test here, it detects it.
We'll see how it goes. Oh, it's fantastic.
Did they have it?
Oh yes, they had it.
Really? And then the reward. Oh, fabulous.
Half a million, more or less. Serious money.
Real money.
It's a true story of success. They are just scraps. I imagine it is reassuring that spending all that money, they get a result.
Unless it's like Hydra, which comes back out. And one thing I asked them, and it's what we talked about in the car, is we don't have it. Because we haven't seen it, we haven't found it, so they know we don't have it. Is it because no one has ever brought a small trace of it? Or is it because we have had traces and they have never spread? Probably the second one. And if that's the case, is it because we do these annual treatments against weeds? In other words, where you observe the myriophyllum, it is there that the weeds tend to grow and we treat them every year.
Except for Acapers.
But is it that annual treatment that eliminates the young hydrilla that tries to establish itself?
But technically speaking, the chemical products we use for myriophyll do not hit the hydrilla.
I don't know. I don't know. Why is sonar used? It is used to dig at high density, for localized treatments. What we use would be effective. And the bugbee of the agricultural station It seemed, it had the idea that it could be like this. The fact is that we have, you know, except last year, made, you know, annual applications and each of them has our, you know, our biggest risk point is the boat slip and every year, every time we have made an application, that place is treated, it is
Applied to the bike as a treatment, I think it's a better way to say it, more diplomatic.
So he was assuming that it could be the case that this helped us to save ourselves from contamination, because a fragment that should arrive there, the greater possibility is that it comes from a dock or from a boat that soon, I don't know, and the treatment we do on the boat slide is rather temporary we treat and then the degraded chemical substance and there is no longer so if a piece of drill falls from a slide a month after having finished treatment without the hypothesis that the treatment done a month ago has some kind of effect that is still
Present even if... I think the hypothesis would be that the plant is still young and vulnerable next year.
What we know from the Twin Lakes is that when they finally realized they had it, they realized that they probably already had it at least a year or a year before and they hadn't noticed it.
But I have to go back to look at the specific reference.
But they calculated that they had had a small fire before and I think they knew it. And then they came back and they treated it. I support what he says, that there is a possibility that, since the hydrilla grows quickly, it takes a little to thicken. So the treatment the following year is probably what helps us.
So given the possibility that it is true, this emphasizes that we should do our annual treatments for the mille-feuille and so on every year and try not to skip the year as we did before, It also suggests that other lakes should do the same thing. And this raises the question if we should do a prophylactic treatment, if we did not see weeds, but we still wanted to do the same treatment. The state would perhaps say no, that there is nothing to treat, but if we had supported the fact that such a treatment on what could be worth it, yes. Treating an infestation, then it would be a good thing to do.
How would you generate data here?
Well, I was talking to Morgan in Barca, if we could get, uh, you can go online now and see exactly which lakes have Drilla and on the sites, as I did six years ago. And presumably the data is there, that I obtained the permits to treat what and when. I don't know how difficult it is to find, but if I did a cross-reference, I could see statistically if this shows that the lakes that have had periodic treatments, as we have done for things like mille-foil, do not have Drilla, while those who have not done it have it. If it statistically emerged, it would be Florida. And Morgan had asked for a possible research project. So I proposed it and he said we could publish it. I said yes, but I didn't know if he had done it.
It would be something really interesting to do. I mean, the state has that data. No, actually when I was doing research on that article that I made on the newspaper that was false about the... Oh, the exam.
No, actually it was on The Day. The Day.
Boom, I was looking for permits.
I was Bavarian and in the end I said, okay, I'll ask the GPT.
I found the permit. I found the one they have for the D4 that they used before.
I was really shocked because I was on the whole Deep site trying to find the permits and I couldn't. ChatGPT made me jump out right away.
If you're interested.
If you want to do some research to see if it's feasible, then we can offer it to Morgan if you want. Yes, it would be nice.
You suggested that we could use Lia to become... ...more intelligent.
So, do you manage your relationship with Morgan? I'm excited that it's going well and I'll take a step back and I'll let you... Oh yeah, sorry, it was a joke.
He seemed interested. He didn't have any more news and he's busy with... ...all the things he should take care of, but he doesn't. but it seems to me an exercise that is worth doing, especially if you can help guide it. Obviously you have to get the primary sources for a verification.
And you also talked about it with Lindelags.
If the data is a bit vague and confusing, you know, it would be worth showing them in one of these meetings.
Federation so it would be the right time to ask I put a pulse in the ear to morgan about bringing someone behind him and I don't know I know he has a name in mind but I don't know if he went beyond the mentioned and said that this person will have a license or will be a younger brother of someone he knows is the same person
The person I think is older. So I don't know, I don't know what he's thinking.
And we didn't follow him. I want to say, I asked if he thought this individual would have been, you know, responsible, analytical and able to follow the procedures, although they seem rather precise and everything else, which he is very good at. He said, this guy has a degree, so he's exuberant.
And of course, he's not the type who would tend to do all this.
I said, well, you didn't know me when...
He said, you don't know me, you don't know me. When did you know me? We didn't do it.
Morgan graduates next June. Yes. And I was... Well, there was this other guy, Colin Langley, who had just finished his first year and... So it's a little further ahead and he contacted me because he was doing a project from Eagle Scout.
This would be the perfect type of.
So I thought it would be suitable and I haven't really talked to Morgan yet. Yes, it's someone you and Morgan know.
I would be happy to help you meet him or her and if they want to come. a kayak with us when we do it to see if they are interested.
So do you have your own kayak?
And then for the ... uh, for the affluent. I go with them.
I don't really need them.
He does everything and I just look and sometimes I remind him of something. They are there mainly to check traffic. Along the road. I mean, you know, since cars are passing, we have our yellow jackets.
And then for the change.
I think you're doing a great job, and I think he's doing a great job, and he can't be happier than that. No, I'm serious, and it's helpful. And you know, you know where to park to get to these places and he goes down quickly towards the water. That pole is fantastic. You don't have to get off the pole.
We have all sorts of information that we can spread, you know, on how to build the pole.
It works well and I think it's useful for the whole program.
You said you were worried about my current age. I sent a picture to Summer. I have not yet received an answer.
I took a very similar picture last year when we had someone here. Yes. Whoever said yes, that is a type of algae. It escapes me.
I think that algae that you have to worry about, even if algae are hycianobacteria, and those can cause pollutant eruptions and so on, if I understood correctly. So there are things that you shouldn't worry about. Presumably what is not. And that is something that, if we get a lot of phosphate, will bring us those flowering. That's why I have to worry.
So, that seaweed is on top of the mille-feuille that is dying? I didn't know if it was connected to... Well, it's mille-feuille that is dying.
It's releasing nutrients and it's... It's growing thanks to this. It's fertilized with mille-feuille. So, after the survey, people were afraid of missing some plants. We know for sure that what they saw was not... No, I think one of us had made a wrong identification and they didn't treat him because he wasn't.
I sent them a map, if I can find it, of the areas around the house of Janelle and around the house of Tony. They didn't treat me. I think they went to both places. They treated Tony's area, but they didn't treat Gianella's.
Why didn't they?
I guess because they didn't find her.
Because she stressed them out.
He had cut it a little earlier, so they wouldn't have seen it.
But something was missing and they had to treat it again. Or...
No, when they did the survey in my area, nothing emerged, but there was definitely something.
So they went back to treat. They checked and, yes, they treated that same day when they treated the rest. Yes, the answer is that the survey was missing in Tony's area.
New members of the survey and they were in a different position. And maybe it's just an isolated case, it's a quality problem.
I don't know, I wouldn't know... You should probably talk about it with Mark too Nick about how he managed to escape I think it's a good question because as I said when I was out with the team on the slide I was very shocked I couldn't distinguish these things but they looked down and I asked what it was and they knew exactly what it was I'll do it, it's a great thing.
It's just, you know, it's a point, a single point, it's right to ask the question, but... Mine.
Yes, of course, what's missing?
It's the same quality.
You said they were out for a long time, but the day of the overwinter, right?
I don't know. I wasn't okay for nothing. I was busy all day. I didn't notice it.
I wasn't really looking. I mean, when the hydro-slipper passes, everyone knows.
I'll ask this question.
And next year, when they do the treatment, we'll go out again to check if my area seems treated or not.
But we shouldn't, we shouldn't have to do it.
No, I mean, I think that...
Well, they hadn't treated it, so we were able to do it, because they sent us the areas that they would have treated.
I, you know, you said they didn't do it, I saw that they didn't include your area, that of Janelle, which we thought was a millefoglio.
I sent them the photo and said, please check this.
No, I get it. I'm just saying that if the same thing happens next year, if my area doesn't turn out to have any problems, and then, you know, I'll go out and say, oh, yeah.
One of Dennis' neighbors said he thought he had something. He was in the treatment area, looking at Genesis Place on the right. And... Uh, it's him!
No, no, it's... Let's see... No, it's down here. So this was treated.
They spent a lot of time up here.
Well... Dennis said they were everywhere in that area. The monitoring of the vote seems to proceed... I think next year we will have to expand the program and do as I mentioned before that we can be there when the first of the fishing tournaments I think we talked about quality of water you have idea if we did the championship for total nitrogen and total phosphorus from torrents and lake we sent it in
We have arrived quite cold, not completely frozen, so we will take a thick polystyrene box. I have not yet had answers on the data, but I want to have those results before making another set.
Yes, that would be good. There's nothing new, I'm just waiting for the water deviation permit to take a look at it, before they open it. So let's hope it starts, you know, with the next... We know the whole problem we have with the dam, we rebuilt the park... Technically what we are asking for is a permit... When we open the dam... From the point of view of the State, that is a water deviation. So we are obtaining a permit to deviate the water. I got tired of saying that we had been put under this title. How? You know, we had a...
I don't remember. What was it called?
We received a warning of violation. It doesn't seem excessive.
He's talking about the Diga. After the rain, very strong.
I'm kayaking.
And I was sure to stay away from the Diga because I didn't want to go over it. But while I'm going parallel to the shore, so perpendicular to the flow coming out of the dam, I'm walking straight and I realize that I'm going sideways. So there was a flow pronounced towards the night. Out of that torrent. But this means that for someone who doesn't pay attention, it would be a real security problem.
For someone who is not as strong as you. I mean, I was in that area and I saw, you know, like...
Well, I wouldn't want to go there with an air chamber or something like that.
It would be even worse, because they are not very maneuverable.
And with the rest of the day, I realized that I had crossed the current quite easily. Just like when you're in a red tide, go sideways, don't fight against it. I mean...
The lake has risen by a foot in total. Oh yes.
I heard it and I was curious. I didn't go down to take a look.
So I want to say it was a huge amount of water...
It was a long time ago. I don't think so. No, I think...
I just finished pumping the water from the cemetery. I should go back and... No, it's okay. Everything gets a little confused. I think it was last week.
I was at Providence that day because I remember having noticed that all the main conduits at Providence were absolutely full and they were jumping as much as they could and I had what we call draining shoes. I had sandals, it was perfect because you know, simply.
But I couldn't believe that Providence, which is a rather sophisticated city, had so many difficulties in managing all that water.
It was an incredible amount of water in a short period of time.
And I don't think we really knew what was coming.
We didn't know. The forecasts for that day were one inch and three quarters.
And we had four and three quarters.
Yes, we just looked while we arrived. Actually, you know, I was just thinking, you know, we have that old firetruck that is still around. Because they haven't told us to put it back in place.
That was on top of the Diga.
I mean, that's the only signal.
And I think that the moment I saw that signal, if I wasn't a good canoeist, it would be too late. You could grab it.
I could grab you, maybe, if I could.
And that's what I wanted to ask. We want to report it in some way. If we have a film available for that, I mean, an event that happens once every few years. We have to ask for a permit in another city.
Did I get a permit for that? No, they didn't have the permit for that.
Let me see if I can figure out where it should go.
Can we put it back in place or something? Anyway, there will be about a meter of water. I mean, normally... Normally you can almost walk on it. And to answer Joel, we are talking about a very rare event.
This marks the end of the pipe for the fire. But it also serves as a dam. A warning that says a line because otherwise it would not make sense. I mean, if you're new to the lake and you're going fast and suddenly you turn to the side. There was no other big noise. But I imagine that if I had gone too far, I would have fallen and I would have died. It's pretty creepy.
It doesn't have a review on it. Completely wrong.
Before they had a review. But when there was the earthquake in 1983 or whatever it was, the fallen trees that ended up on the dam at that point destroyed the recinct.
I mean, they didn't put it back?
No, because it worsens the flooding by accumulating water behind the trees. It took away the road, it took away the road. Well, yes, that's why they redid the road.
They redid the road.
this is all ok this is all about the deviation of the lake some questions events of the lake we still have a fishing tournament until now and there will be a sunfish regatta on Saturday 19 Does anyone else have something else to add?
I have a couple of things. First, I noticed that the yellow cards of the treatment are still on the telephone poles. And Chacra, who removes them? How long do they have to stay here?
They can be removed when you see them. I tried them. I took them off when I saw them, but I lost a couple. They can be removed.
Okay, I'll take them off. I say, there is certainly still one in Blood Street.
Yes, I passed in front of them. But I think people go so fast.
You have to be careful. It's better if you stand up.
In the future, we can write herbicide instead of pesticide.
I'm sorry.
I agree with you, but it's a pesticide and that's how it's called.
So this is why we have permission.
And the second thing concerns annual reports. Do you mean that of the municipality? Okay.
We send, or Janel prepares a sketch and then we review it.
And it will have a picture of Samantha inside.
So, yes.
I talked a little with Janel about what we could include. And one of the things was monitoring.
Every time we can talk about... Don't let the water enter the lake. The more times we do it, the better it is.
So we were talking about doing it. I thought it would be a little worrying that someone got lost on Facebook and spread a lot of disinformation, habits. And I think the final idea was that we would have written a sort of facum.
We were. I mean, I was in charge of doing it. It didn't seem to me that anyone had been followed. I replied to that post, as far as I know. So you think the question could be closed?
Well, in my mind it was, yes.
And that was on People of Old Line? Yes, I think so.
or the forum of the online community, maybe, or something like that. And yes, it's this guy who lives here, near... Where does he live? Right near Shore Drive. Near me.
Now, Erika won't publish these things. I wouldn't do it.
We should probably, you're right, we should keep it ready if necessary, but... We should still do it, but it doesn't seem like an urgent thing.
Do you want to send me some? Well, I can throw down some thoughts on what kind of things you could put in there.
I was just thinking. I'm trying to think.
Historically, I had a lot of things on my mind and now they're all gone.
Well, my approach would have been that we are carrying on this program for X years and, you know, fill it up. How many years have passed? How effective has the general reduction been? How much should it be treated? that we have done multiple studies of the lake after the applications showing that we are talking about the death of fish no and no one you know you would say that there are no evidence of the death of fish well he supports it but I don't know if we have shown it to someone he can say what he wants but we
It's just like that. But are they in his garden?
I mean, has anyone ever seen it? There was a strange pile of fish a couple of years ago in that little water mirror and I sent some champions to the agricultural center and I don't remember, they didn't think they were pesticides. They thought it was, you know, stress or something else. They weren't full of fish. There were more than you'd want to see, but they were... You know, maybe 10 or 15 fish in all.
That's it. I'm saying there's no proof that the fish deaths are linked to the pesticide.
Well, we haven't seen any fish deaths, as far as we know. Well, this guy seems to think so. I don't know. But I don't want to validate... No one has any comments on this. I don't want to validate... rather than talking about Moria di Pesci I would work on the studies we have done regarding the quality to the ecology of the lake to the fact that it is improved with native plants that are coming back where there was first the myriophyllum that we have studies that show that the sweet water mussels are fine, they have not been damaged. You know, we did all the necessary studies, not to mention that these chemical products are pesticides used throughout the country. I would also like to add that These pesticides usually have a short life span.
They do their job and then...
They decompose, so they don't stay long. And they don't hit fish. I mean, their functioning has nothing to do with the organism of a fish. Wait. Here's a biology citation for you.
Doctor, it would be the doctor.
Doctor, the doctor.
In short, everything that can gallop, especially if there was something dead, arrives in my brain and I haven't seen anything at all. Nothing. Everything comes to me. A pool tube, anything. Anything, everything ends in my brain.
There's a... sort of... round thing that I saw. I don't remember where I saw it. I'll be out in a couple of days and I'll see it.
Well, we pulled out some of that stuff and we put it in the park. We have a small collection.
Well... You pulled out something from our farm? Oh, thank you!
How is it possible that there is so much stuff? No one ever claims it.
No one asked for it?
By the way, what happened to that kayak we had? I don't know what happened. Janelle had to take it. Do you still have it? We never told her. It was coming. I gave it to her.
Well, here it is. If you want to get rid of something, put it here on the road. Okay. I swear to God. It will disappear. We had some old heavy paddle boards. So we put them out here. 20 minutes later they disappeared. Once a guy stopped putting out one of those pedals because everyone takes them back, then they hate them and they don't know what to do with them. And he said, well, I'll get it back if it's not gone. And in fact, a couple of hours later there was nothing left. There are other things.
Well, yes. If someone sees those yellow signs, he can pull them down.
I don't think I have them.
There was a big white one at the entrance of the...
There are so many signs of the devil in that whole park. It's like visual pollution. You can't see. There's too much traffic. You can't see everything. I mean, you'd have to drive slowly to see everything. Tutte le cose che non posso fare. Facciamo una mozione per chiudere la riunione?
Penso che dovremo.
Propongo di chiudere la riunione.
A posto.
Favorevoli?
Io io.
La mozione è approvata. Grazie mille a tutti.
Grazie.
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