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From: Karena Casev <br />To: Maggie in; Adam Edwards <br />Cc: Karena Casev; Lee Harren; Eric Evenson <br />Subject: Another Letter of Support for a Stubbs Bay LID - former Mayor of Orono, Jim White <br />Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 7:40:54 AM <br />Adam and Maggie, <br />Please also share this letter of support with the Council and Mayor. Thank you!!! <br />—Karena Casey <br />Dear Karena, <br />Let me summarize my experience of living with Carmen Bay's LID. First, Carmen Bay is not <br />a closed bay like Stubbs Bay, and the water quality is much different in Carmen Bay than it is <br />in Stubbs Bay. The north part of Carmen Bay has been more severely impacted by invasives <br />like milfoil, than the southern, or open part of the bay where I live. Harvesting was done <br />throughout our bay in the 1990's, and spot harvesting was done for a short time in later years. <br />Milfoil cuttings piled up along our shoreline after each harvest. I think that harvesting simply <br />spread the milfoil. Every boat trip out of our slip involved stopping the boat in deeper water <br />and reversing the engine to spin the collected milfoil off the prop. <br />All of that changed when chemical treatment for milfoil became available. Our bay, like <br />yours, had most lakeshore property owners supporting the lid. The annual cost for us has been <br />approximately $200 to 300 per season, determined by the lakeshore frontage. We no longer <br />have milfoil cuttings piling up along the riprap, and the water is clear well past our dock, and <br />indeed, it is clear across our part the bay. <br />What has changed for us is we no longer draw lake water to sprinkle our lawn or our gardens, <br />because the warning postings we have received before treatment tell us not to draw water for <br />those purposes for 30 days (this is a typo, it's only 3 days), which hasn't been an <br />inconvenience in summers when we're not in a drought like last year's drought. I leave it to <br />the DNR monitor any effect the chemical treatments have on the native plants and fish. <br />Best of luck with your Stubbs Bay lid <br />Jim White <br />302 <br />