Friends of Prospect Lake

At A Glance

Location: 

N. Egremont, Massachusetts

Primary Issue Area:

  • Land & Water

Active since:

2005

Grants Received In:

  • 2008

Core volunteers:

14

Community Size:

1,343

Our Purpose

to preserve, protect, monitor, maintain, and enhance the environmental, aesthetic, recreational, and economic values of Prospect Lake and its watershed and to provide education with respect thereto.

Summary of Projects

THe Friends of Prospect Lake (RoPL) received a grant in 2008 to assist in a two pronged pilot project to hand pull and clean select lake fronts on Prospect Lake of invasive weeds and prevent non point source pollution by planting along the lake perimeter.FoPL hopes to use this project as a model for alternatives to herbicides.