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The May 2001Newsletter RESIDENT OPPORTUNITY: WELL WATER TESTING County health departments highly recommend yearly testing of private wells. Why? Even though your well water may taste fine, it can become contaminated with bacteria and agricultural pollutants. Children are especially susceptible to these pollutants. A few of the health effects of contaminated water are: birth defects, hyperactivity, ADD, lower IQ, behavioral & learning disabilities. Adults/kids can be affected with gastrointestinal disorders, skin infections, brain damage, blue-baby syndrome, & death. More information can be found on the attached sheet or at the EPA website. For a limited time, lake residents can easily get their water tested! The Kent-Ottawa Health Dept. will give us testing bottles for as many residents as are interested. You do your own testing (easy--just fill the small bottles with water from your tap following directions given to you). Return your completed form, bottles and $15 to Linda Lane. She will deliver the bottles for you to the Kent Co. Health Dept. In 2-3 weeks, you will receive a confidential report on your water supply. The county does not keep a record of the results nor does it forward the results to anyone. If you discover you have nitrates in your water, your letter will advise you of your options. No one from the Health Dept. will come to visit you. Questions? Call Kent Co. Health Dept. 336-3089 If you want to participate, call Linda Lane at 887-1562 and she will order bottles for you. DEADLINE TO PARTICIPATE: MAY 30, 2001 If you miss the deadline, you can always get the bottles yourself and take them in to the County. (Kent or Ottawa). Same price. TENTATIVE WEED TREATMENT SCHEDULE 2001 First Treatment - Weed & Algae -
May 21, 2001 Please remember that these dates are subject to change due to weather and DEQ permitting factors. If you do not want weed treatment done in front of your residence, you must call Professional Lake Management before MAY 14, 2001and give them your name and address. Residents who wait until the day of treatment to make this request will not have their request honored. Professional Lake Management is on a tight schedule as they can only treat when weather conditions are correct. Please cooperate with their request.1-891-1294 2001 FIREWORKS Date: JULY 4, 2001. We will be putting a yellow buoy out in the lake in June. This is the tentative spot for shooting this year's fireworks. Take a moment to go to the site--Can you see your home from the site? The June newsletter will inform you of the lucky residents who will have great views of the fireworks who are willing to share their lakefront lot with you and your guests. SLOW DOWN!! 25 M.P.H. ON VAN DYKE & CROCKERY SHORES IS OFFICIAL!! The Ottawa County Road Commission has finally put in writing that the speed limit on the roads surrounding Crockery Lake is 25 m.p.h. Letter attached. SPRING TRASH PICKUP We are hoping for an energetic group of residents to participate in the trash pick up on the roads surrounding Crockery Lake on May 12at 9:00 a.m. Rain date: May 19 at 9:00 a.m. Meet at the Grose Park Shelter. Questions: Call Mike Jachim 887-1075. We won't have another clean-up until after Labor Day. RUMMAGE SALE Last year's rummage sale brought in $650! Because CLA is now a tax-exempt organization, your fireworks donations are also tax-exempt. If you want a federal tax write-off for your rummage sale donations, you will need to do the following:
The 2001 rummage sale is planned for two days--September 6 and 7 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Chester Township Hall. Drop off: Sept 5 at Chester Township Hall. Larry Edmonds and Marv Knoper will be running the show! Last year, only ten families donated items; even fewer helped at the sale. Just think how much money we could get if more of you would donate! Please start collecting your items now. We only ask that they be clean and useable. The proceeds will go toward the 2002 Fireworks. GOOSE DETERRENTS Our weed treatment, Professional Lake Management, also handles 2 types of goose deterrents. I just copied them verbatim from their newsletter. If you are interested, you can call them at 800-382-4434. "Are you fed up with overabundant geese--and the piles of "goose grease" they leave behind? Goose droppings are not just unsightly, they add nutrients to your lake or pond and are loaded with potentially harmful bacteria. A single goose produces 1200 pounds of droppings each year. If it seems like all of them are in your yard, contact us today for a solution. PLM has a variety of innovative tools for managing your goose problem. ReJeX-iT is the old standby of goose repellants. Its grape flavor and odor are unpleasant to geese. Applied to grassy areas, such as lawns, it renders grass unpalatable to geese, driving them off to more desirable feeding areas. FlightControl© is a new high-tech goose deterrent. FlightControl works on two levels. First, it includes a digestive irritant that gives geese indigestion when they eat treated grass. FlightControl also contains a visual warning market that is invisible to humans but provides a highly visible warning to geese, allowing them to identify and avoid treated areas on sight. Goose D-Fence. Goose D-Fence is a specially engineered, retractable fence that can be installed or removed in under 10 minutes. Goose exclusion fences aren't a new idea--they have been used successfully for years. Goose D-Fence rolls strong monofilament fencing onto an enclosed reel and provides attractive fence posts with stainless steel bases. The result is an attractive, long-lasting goose fence that can easily be put up to securely keep the geese out and quickly removed for parties, weekends, family lake days, or whatever. A single Goose D-Fence kit covers up to 150 feet of shoreline. "None of these management techniques harms geese." GREAT DAY RECEIPTS!! BAD NEWS! Great Day is discontinuing this program. They promise to have a new type of program in the future. PLEASE GET YOUR RECEIPTS TO THE BELOW MAILBOXES BEFORE THE MIDDLE OF MAY. WE NEED TIME TO PROCESS THEM IN ORDER TO BEAT THE MAY 31 DEADLINE. RECEIPTS RECEIVED AFTER MAY 31 ARE INVALID AND WE WILL NOT BE REIMBURSED. THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS PROGRAM. Proceeds go to lake improvement and lake testing. Please also save your Spartan UPC
labels. If we get another 200, we will be able to turn
them in to receive $20. Continue to give your receipts to
any CLA Board member or drop them in the CLA mailboxes
located on either side of the lake-- CROCKERY LAKE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING Mark Your Calendars!! June 20, 2001. Chester Township Hall. Check June newsletter for more details. 2001 SEPTIC PUMPING We will be running the Pumptitude Honor Roll for all of you who have your septic pumped from January 2001 through October 2001. After you have your septic pumped, please let Linda Lane know (887-1562) so you can be added to the honor roll. She will also check with VanDyke & Myers for those of you who forget to call. To help keep the lake clean and keep your septic systems working properly you should have your septic tanks pumped each year. VanDyke & Myers has again volunteered to give us a group pumping price. Regular price of pumping: $125 Call them at 899-2324. You will need to let them know you are from Crockery Lake to get the discount. They would also appreciate it, if possible, if you could tell them your tank capacity. VanDyke & Myers has received information that there will be a substantial increase in 2002 due to updated EPA guidelines they must meet. Get your tanks pumped while the price is low!!!!!! You won't see the same prices next year. We've Lost a Neighbor Cordia Cooper, a very long-time resident of Crockery Lake, has died at the age of 98. Our condolences to her family. FOR SALE: 1998 Premier Majestic Pontoon & Motor. 25' retail: 27,500; asking $15,000. Call John Thornton after 6: at 899-2255 BOATING VIOLATIONS Call 9-1-1 for violations on which you
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