45th Annual Meeting

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TLA’s 45th Annual Meeting

  • Thursday, July 21st, 2011 5 to 9 PM
  • Presentation by Rodney Stokes, Director Michigan Department of Natural Resources
  • Please mail your registration to Becky Norris by June 15th
  • $23 per dinner

TLA April 2011 Newsletter

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Click HERE to view TLA’s April 2011 Newsletter.

A hard copy of TLA’s April 2011 Newsletter is being mailed to you next week.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

  • New Grass River Sediment Project
  • Butch’s Marina Cleanup
  • 2010 Water Quality Monitoring Results
  • Bay Harbor CKD Leachate Problem Update
  • DNR Director to speak at Annual Meeting

Natural Shoreline Workshop for property owners on inland lakes, April 15th, Boyne Mtn Resort

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As part of Three Lakes Association’s efforts to protect natural shorelines, please consider registering and participating in a workshop for property owners on inland lakes, April 15th, 1:00 to 4:30 PM, at Boyne Mountain Resort.  Click HERE to down load the flyer to learn about the workshop and the process for registering.

In anticipation that this Workshop will contain some practical information for owners of property on lakes who may be interested in improving their shoreline, Three Lakes Association (TLA) is offering to reimburse the registration fee of $35 for the first two TLA members who attend the workshop and who would be willing to summarize key highlights from the Workshop at TLA’s Board meeting on May 10th.   Please send a copy of your registration form to TLA Office, P.O. Box 689, Bellaire, MI 49615

TLA’s JANUARY 2011 Newsletter

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Click HERE to view TLA’s JANUARY 2011 Newsletter.

A hard copy of TLA’s JANUARY 2011 Newsletter is being mailed to you next week.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

  • DNRE’s clean up of gasoline from old leaks at Butch’s Marina
  • TLA support of efforts to upgrade rules governing Fracking
  • Preliminary findings from TLA Membership Opinion Survey
  • TLA’s awards 2011 grants to local schools for environmental education
  • Confirming TLA’s concern about proposed Forest Home Twp Park

Fracking: Three Lakes Association joins 33 organizations to urge regulatory upgrades in rules

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Current rules in the State of Michigan to protect water quality when using new hydrologic fractionation technologies to help extract natural gas from deep oil-shale formations contain risky exemptions and lack public transparency.  On November 17, 2010 Three Lakes Association joined 33 organizations in recommending changes in Michigan’s rules to upgrade the assessments of huge volumes of ground water needed to frack a well, to disclose the identity of the chemicals used, and to disposal of spent fracking solutions. Click HERE to review the sign-on letter.

TLA October Newsletter

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Click HERE to view TLA’s OCTOBER Newsletter.

A hard copy of TLA’s October Newsletter is being mailed to you next week.

This issue contains articles on the following topics:

  • 2010 Summer Internship Program, Cladophora green-algae survey
  • Eurasian water milfoil in Torch Lake
  • 2010 E.coli test results, tributary monitoring
  • Lake trout from Torch Lake: Fish Consumption Advisory
  • Loon Research Program
  • Bay Harbor, cement kiln dust leachate problem: Update

2010 TLA OPINION SURVEY

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Please print a copy of the 2010 TLA Opinion Survey for each member of your family and request that they take a few minutes to respond to the survey questions, and then mail the completed out surveys by December 1, 2010 to:
Tina Fields
5860 Aarwood Road NW
Rapid City, MI 49676

The plan is to compile and summarize the responses in an article in the January 2011 TLA Newsletter.

Click HERE to download the survey.

August 2010 E.coli test results

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Please click HERE to view the E.coli test results for samples collected on August 12, 2010. The result continue to show a high degree of variability, which may be associated with rain event a few days prior to sampling these tributaries. The values higher than 300 colonies per 100 ml of water are candidates for re-sampling, which may take place later in August.