Membership Newsletter June 2023 /Annual Membership drive chemo pond lake association The CPLA email address is: chemopondla@gmail.com Annual Meeting: July 8, 2023 Eddington Town Office 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. Hot dogs and refreshments served Things are greening up and boats are on the lake again. And the loons have been providing quite a “concert” […]
The sandbags have been removed and the heavy equipment is gone. There is water flowing over the rock weir and through the new crib on its way to the Penobscot River. The top of the rock weir is approximately 125.6 ft. above sea level. It should hold back water in Chemo Pond to the same […]
As of this past weekend, most of the construction appears to be done. The spillway is complete, part of the roll dam has been removed and just the sandbags are left at the left spillway. The following photos show the completed crib, spillway and rock weir plus a couple of photos up at the roll […]
In these photos and video, we see the completion of the crib replacement in the left spillway. Walls were built both upstream and downstream from the old portion of the dam to the new concrete drib then stone was filled in between the walls. On the upstream side, mortared stone was placed to help seal […]
Construction continues replacing the left spillway in the dam at Leonard’s Mill. The footings were poured earlier this week (see the first video). The construction crew worked into the night on Thursday placing rebar, forms, and pouring the concrete for the sides and top of the spillway (see the second video). The photos are from […]
Here are some more photos of the ongoing dam construction at Leonard’s Mill from October 17-23. They show the removal of the rotting wooden crib and reinforcement of the coffer dam. There are tons of water flowing through the dam right now. The coffer dam had to be reinforced to hold back the additional 7 […]
The following photos were taken on October 15-20 and show the coffer dam being built and reinforced to hold back the water from the left spillway after recent rains. Once the area is dry, work will begin to pour the concrete spillway to replace the rotting wooden one. Here is a video of the filling […]
Construction began around October 13 and will continue for around 2 weeks. An overview of the project entails the replacement of the wooden crib in the left spillway of the dam, placement of a rock weir in front of the left spillway to replace the seasonal boards in the spillway that helps control the water […]
For those of you who are new to Chemo Pond or are unaware of the ongoing issues we have had with the water level in the pond, here is a brief refresher. There are two dams on Blackman Stream between Chemo Pond and the Penobscot River. The functional one is at the Maine Forest and […]
Water quality can be measured in many ways. One of the easiest is with a device called a Secchi Disc. This device measures water clarity which is directly proportional to water quality. The Secchi Disc is a round disc divided into 4 quadrants like a pie. Two opposite quadrants are black and the other two […]