Wayland Town Crier 4/11/14: Efforts underway to improve Lake Cochituate’s quality and accessibility. While attention in recent weeks has focused on a state effort to…

Wayland Town Crier 1/20/14: Group seeks to improve Lake Cochituate in Natick. The Lake Cochituate Watershed Council Wednesday is hosting what member Pat Conaway calls…

Wayland Town Crier 5/6/12: Grant received for managing invasive weeds in North Pond. The state Department of Conservation and Recreation has announced that Wayland's Surface Water Quality Committee and Framingham's Conservation Commission have received a two-to-one matching grant for the management of invasive weeds in North Pond of Lake Cochituate-Cochituate State Park. Soon residents will see the milfoil fragment barrier deployed at the Route 30 inflow. "Our goal will be to control using diver hand pulling, with resort to herbicide spot treatment if necessary," said Mike Lowery of the Surface Water Quality Committee. "Wayland is blessed to share North Pond with Framingham and with all the citizens of the commonwealth," Lowery said. "Shared financing and management responsibilities have worked well over the last three years to protect our jewel — North Pond of Cochituate State Park."

The letter from DCR is available online here.

Wayland Town Crier 6/27/11: Lake Cochituate work goes forward. Several Natick lakefront neighborhoods are taking advantage of a new partnership between the Lake Cochituate Watershed Council and the state Department of Conservation and Recreation to hire divers to remove milfoil waterweeds from around their docks and swimming holes. The program was established through collaboration among the conservation commissions of Natick, Framingham and Wayland, and cuts through much of the bureaucratic paperwork normally required for residents to make any changes to the state-owned Lake Cochituate.

Wayland Surface Water Quality Committee's successful joint proposal with Framingham to the DCR for invasive weed control in North Pond was announced today at a…

Wayland Town Crier 2/16/11: State funds improvements for Lake Cochituate, Charles River. The Department of Conservation and Recreation is awarding $1 million in matching funds for 32 projects in state parks and other facilities, including improvements in Framingham, Natick, Wayland and Weston. The money comes through DCR’s Partnerships Matching Funds Program, which accepts applications from local organizations willing to provide a match for capital projects. A DCR project manager oversees the projects in consultation with partners. Local projects include treatment of a boat channel at Lake Cochituate State Park using approved herbicides, hand-pulling and removal of roof crowns. The state's partners are the Wayland Surface Water Quality Committee and Framingham Conservation Commission.

Wayland Town Crier 2/3/11: Towns work together to streamline weed eradication effort. State, municipal and citizen stakeholders in Lake Cochituate have hammered out a streamlined process for residents to have invasive lake weeds pulled along their waterfront property. The conservation commissions of the three towns that surround Lake Cochituate — Wayland, Framingham, and Natick — met last week to draw up a common document that lake abutters can use to hire state-certified divers to rip up Eurasian milfoil.