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MEMORANDUM _ = 'iJ�
T0: Phil Bradley
John Gerhardson
FROM: Dick Flint
DATE: March 21, 1989
Note the attached article on Eurasian water milfoil . I 'm
never sure what matters are within the jurisdiction of the Parks
Commission, but I have observed this weed in Long Lake. I 'd
appreciate your placing this matter on the agenda for the April
4th meeting of the Parks Commission.
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Lake Independence group ;�
forms to fight water milfoil j
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The wprry about "the wced," if One member of that group shared
not the wecd itself, is spreading. what she fears may be her own in- I
A loosely organized group of trocluction to Eurasian water milfoil. �
property owners near Lake Indepen- During the summer the Lake In-
dence is forming an association'to dependence resident takes her smail
address Lake Independence's poten- children to play at the lake's edgc.
tial problems with Eurasian water Becau�c shc de�csn't like to havc he;
' milti�il,the weed whose presence in rhidren playing in the weccls that
Lake Minnetonka ,has prompted a somctimes grow near the shore, she
great deal of debate and concern for rakes them ativay from the.shoreline
users_of that lake. ` regularly, she saicl. �
The group has scheduled a mcct- La�t summer shc rioticed th�it it
ing for 7 p.m., Sunday, March 12 was a�lilicrcnt wcccl that was�row-
at the Medina Village Hall at 2052 ing ther� — a wecd tihe hacJn't sccn
County Road 24 for the purpose of beforc and onc that grow fast, mak-
� sharing information about the weed ing her raking job a vcry regular '
and discussing what they, °as one. �'�'hen the firtit reports of mil-
property owncrs, can c�o about it. ti�il sightings on Lakc Minnctonka
Thcy;will also discuss ti�ming an as- �aere publicized, she began to
sociation so they can better attack a wonder if that w�sn't what she was
problem they are convinced they���ill dealin� with on Lake Independence
facc. as well.
Expert� say the �vecd spreads
" quickl�� frbm lake to lake; since a
new plant ran grow f�rom a fragmcnt
as small as ti�ur inchcs long. Th�
��•cal crratcs unsightly brown niass-
es of matted verctation on the watcr
surfacc that makcs boating and othcr
watcr activitics virtually impossiblc.
The Lakc Minnetonka Conserva-
tion District is spcarheading a
managcmcnt program dcsigned to
contrul thc wccd through harvesting.
Control is necessary, say experts,
hccausc therc is no mcthod to total-
ly eradicate the weed.
LMCD staffers are happy to �
report that they have had to hire tem- �
porary help to dcal evith thc stacks
e�f envclopes they arc receiving. As
��f Mar�h I,privatc contribution�to
thc LMCD's Save thc Lakc fund had
tutallcd�106,510, in addition to thc
funds pledged by several lake cities.