October Programs at Fresh Pond Reservation: Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Monitoring

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Help us count and measure the loosestrife plants in the Little Fresh Pond wetland where loosestrife-eating beetles were released in 2007. We will compare the new data with data that was collected a year ago to determine whether the beetle population has increased. We will send the results to you and to the State’s database.

Please register for each event that you plan to attend.
You will receive important information on parking after you register.
E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com
or call (617) 349-4793 and leave your name and phone number

Fresh Pond Reservation conisists of 162 acres of open space surrounding and protecting the 155 acre Fresh Pond Reservoir. Fresh Pond Reservoir is part of the drinking water supply system for the City of Cambridge which includes Hobbs Brook Reservoir in Lincoln, Lexington and Waltham, and Stony Brook Reservoir in Weston and Waltham.  Water from the drinking water supply system is purified at the Walter J. Sullivan Water Treatment Facility adjacent to Fresh Pond Reservoir, and pumped to Payson Park Reservoir in Belmont. From there it flows back to the City by gravity, providing drinking water to residents and businesses of Cambridge.

Visit our website at www.friendsoffreshpond.org  for\or more information about Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation and Fresh Pond.