Spofford Lake Watershed Management Plan

“The goal of the... Management Plan is to improve water quality in Spofford Lake”. The Plan has 3 Objectives: To Investigate the cause of low dissolved oxygen: to Reduce pollutant loading and to manage and reduce chloride loading into the Lake.

The Plan lists 74 recommendations with associated action items to improve the Lake's water quality (pp 34-40). Also listed are the estimated costs, in hard dollars and volunteer time, to accomplish these recommendations.

It's clear that to "improve water quality in Spofford Lake” the entire community, including the SLA, property owners, the Town of Chesterfield and volunteers, will have to pitch and work together.

Spofford Lake Watershed Management Plan, November 2018 (PDF)