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The Echo Lake Protective Association works to maintain the quality of Echo Lake, the waters, native wildlife, and habitat for all to enjoy for generations to come.

Click here for the 2010 Annual Meeting Flyer - Annual Meeting is Saturday, July 30 at 10AM at the Engels
Click here to read the Minutes from the January, 2010 ELPA Board of Directors Meeting
Click here to read the ELPA Bylaws
Click here for a ELPA 2010 dues coupon
Vicissitudes - more thoughts on life in the Northeast Kingdom by Peggy Gray

Town of Charleston Road Inventory and Capital Budget Plan is complete - Click here to review the Road Inventory
The town also received a 2010 $9,000 Better Backroads Grant to fix erosion problems on Church Hill Road in East Charleston - you know that spot where the blacktop end?

Lakebed Survey Results:
Click here to view the map of healthy aquatic plants in Echo Lake. Click here to view a detail of Section 6.
Thank you to Tom and Amy Wagner, Peggy and Eric Stevens, Patti Lennon, Maryanne O'Brien, and Peter Engels for surveying the lake and charting the aquatic plants.

July:
What we did during the spring and summer of 2010:
ELPA Annual Meeting and Picnic

May:
Milfoil Prevention Project begins at the fishing access on Friday, May 28 at 6AM.
Received a $4,540 Aquatic Nuisance Grant for the Milfoil Prevention Program - giving us a total budget of $10,340 for our fishing access program.

March:
Received a 2010 Better Backroads Grant: Category B: Correction of an Erosion Problem Project for $9,000 to fix erosion problems on Church Hill Road in East Charleston (from where the blacktop ends to the bridge over the outlet stream from Echo Lake.)
Received a $800 commitment from the Town of Charleston for the Milfoil Prevention Program
Received a $5,000 Watershed Grant for the Milfoil Prevention Program.

January:
Submitted Town of Charleston Road Inventory and Capital Budget Plan as part of the 2009 Better Backroads Grant the town received last year.

Echo Lake Protective Association Board Members:
President / Secretary: Peggy Stevens - 4 years
Vice President: Terry Barnum - 2 years
Treasurer: Tom Wagner - 1 year

George Thompson - 4 years
Nancy Tessier - 4 years
Maryanne O'Brien - 2 years
Cindy Swanson - 1 year
John Simsarian -2 years
Bill Woolsey - 2 years
Nancy Engels - Editor: Echo Lake Newsletter - 1 year (officially)