- Use no-phosphorus fertilizer on lawns and gardens
- Be sure to check the bags when you buy them. Look for the package formula of nitrate-phosphorus-potassium, such as 22-0-15. The middle number, representing phosphorus, should be 0.
- Keep grass clippings in the lawn
- When mowing the grass, avoid blowing grass clippings into the street, where they wash into storm sewers that drain to lakes and rivers.
- Keep leaves and other organic matter out of the street
- Again, streets drain to storm sewers, which in turn drain to rivers and lakes.
- Sweep it
- Sweep up any grass clippings or fertilizer spills on driveways, sidewalks and streets.
- Leave a wide strip of deep-rooted plants along shoreland
- Instead of planting and mowing turfgrass here, plant wildflowers, ornamental grasses, shrubs or trees. These plantings absorb and filter runoff that contains nutrients and soil, as well as provide habitat for wildlife.
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House for Sale in Collins Pond Neighborhood on Emerson Drive
Charming home with cathedral ceilings, exposed beams, private tree-lined backyard and deeded access to a sandy beach on Collins Pond! Great starter home, get-away home or investment property. For more information click here
Collins Pond Cottage for Sale!
Greetings,
This is Andrea Morris and I am reaching out to other Collins Pond residents to let them know that 58 Sposedo Rd is for sale. We would like to offer it to residents and/or their friends and families prior to listing with a Realtor. If there is any interest please call 603 767-0687 or email sage711@comcast.net
Regards, Andrea Morris
Sharing is Good!
Please share your pictures!
Photo Submission: To submit a photo to be posted on CPIA website send your photo as an attachment to collinspondme@gmail.com. Please make sure the file is in jpeg form and the size is less than 500k
Possum by Paul Rawson
Hot Off the Press!
Please do not feed the waterfowl!
Lake Environmental Association Message
LEA would like to share the following message with our members.
Please consider contacting your representatives and signing the petition. LEA believes that the passage of these bills will help protect water quality throughout the state. Thank you for taking the time to read this important message
With 1 click you can help double NPS funds- $10M over 5 Years!
Toni Pied and Tamara Whitmore of Friends of the Cobbossee Watershed demonstrated for LD 178 at the State House on April 4, 2018. Add your voice to theirs by signing on to this petition today. It will carry your support for clean and healthy water to the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee. That committee will vote up or down very soon on our $5M Bond to Provide Jobs, Improve Infrastructure and Protect Water Resources (LD 178) as well as a $50M Bond to Fund Wastewater Infrastructure Projects (LD 1510). 178 will double funds for stormwater abatement (think 319 projects), and 1510 deals with very serious point sources- septic overflows. It’s going to be a close thing! Our waters – from small streams to the gulf – need our help.
This is a rare chance to do so much good with just one click! Please sign on.
Thanks,
Maggie Shannon, for the Maine Lakes Society
Road & Property Maintenance Workshop
The Collins Pond West Side Road Association has invited The Collins Pond Improvement Association to join them for a Workshop on Road & Property Maintenance. For more information please click on this invitation: Road & Property Maintenance Workshop Invitation.
Skating!
Take a spin around the Pond with Linda Tam-Peterson before the storm!
Sketch Book of Sherry Andre
A composite of the winter activities on the pond. As I paint there are now three snow huts pitched on the ice, thirteen people in sight, one or two sledges per tent, two to five canvas chairs set up near two tents, three huge power ice awls sticking up out of the ice and numerous holes with their ice fishing rigs set up. Last tent flushed the hundreds of mallards gathered for their daily corn from persistent neighbor. (Arghh.) People walk their dogs, pull kids on sleds, skate, snowshoe, cross-country ski, snowmobile, but mostly ice fish. They are often out on the ice before sun up.
Oh, there goes our resident bald eagle after the skeins of ducks. He/she enjoys well-fed duck and the fish ice fishermen sometimes share. I watch, sketch, paint, take my granddaughters out on the ice and dream of warmth and kayaking again.
Happy winter.
Cheryl (Sherry) Andre
The Milfoil Flower…..
What I learned new from The CPIA Benthic Barrier Work Shop. You can help stop the spread of milfoil by clipping off the flower before it goes to seed. But you need to make sure you bag the flower and dispose of it away from the pond!
