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.