TPPA plans to establish a Lake Conservation Corp starting with a pilot project during  the summer 2010.  

The TPPA LCC will carry out erosion mitigation projects around the Three Ponds Each project will provide solutions to soil erosion problems.  These solutions are called Best Management Practices (BMPs).  Behind these projects will be a crew of eager High School students supervised by a crew leader.  The LCC program will offer our youth the opportunity to affect environmental solutions and empower them to become the future stewards of our water resources.  Our friend and neighbor, the Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance (AWWA), deserves much credit for successfully implementing a Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program which will serve as the model for the TPPA LCC.  Photos on the right depict an AWWA YCC crew installing infiltration steps.

Project Sites will be chosen based on the following criteria:

1. Many of the sites will be identified via Watershed Surveys.

2. They must of a size and difficulty for the LCC, using hand tools.

3. Sites with mesurable impact to water quality, using sediment load estimates where possible.

4. Sites whose solutions will provide examples of a wide variety of different BMPs.

5. Efforts will be made to include at least one project on each of the Three Ponds.

6. All other factors being equal, the projects should be visible and accessible to the public for inspection, to more fully raise awareness of erosion from storm water runoff and encourage other property owners to participate in the solutions.

TPPA Planned Lake Conservation Corps (LCC)

TPPA was awarded grant funding for 2010 in the amount of $8,000 from the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership. These funds will help us accomplish a LCC pilot project at the Milton Town Beach this summer.  

Anyone interested in helping to plan or conduct this project should contact Steve Baker at (603) 652- 4669 or click this link to E-Mail