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President's  Message
​Greetings Friends of Crescent Lake!

As 2022 has ended and we look forward to a New Year, I want to remind everyone of a key ingredient to the success of our lake stewardship.
                                           VOLUNTEERS!!
Our organization is dependent on people just like you and me to step forward to ensure that our efforts to protect and preserve the lake are successful. The CLWA board and consultants are an all-volunteer group. We meet monthly to review and discuss matters of importance to the lake’s health. Outside the meetings board members spend many hours working on various tasks and initiatives such as lake monitoring and water testing, invasive plant patrolling, program administration, educational efforts, mailings and outreach. And it is not just board members doing this work. There are non-board members as well, who participate in the CLIPPERs (Crescent Lake Invasive Plant Patrollers) and lake monitoring programs.

Sadly, in late summer of 2022, CLWA lost two incredible volunteers. Locke MacDonald passed away on September 11 and Lisa Hall passed away September 12.

​Lisa and Locke were wonderful examples of what volunteers can mean to an organization. Lisa was our CLIPPers coordinator as well as a former board member and recently a board consultant. Lisa spent many hours out on the lake searching for invasive plants and as well as teaching and mentoring new CLIPPers. Lisa was also an active member of the RWPA ( Raymond Waterways Protective Association) board.  Additionally, her late husband Ron Hall was a founding member of and former president of the CLWA board. 

 Locke MacDonald was CLWA’s Vice President / Treasurer. Like Lisa, Locke also volunteered as a board member for RWPA. In this RWPA capacity, Locke donated countless hours of his time to administering and overseeing the Courtesy Boat Inspection program, not just for Crescent Lake, but for all the locations served by RWPA. Without people like Locke and Lisa, no volunteer organization can accomplish the important work we do.

 CLWA’s purpose is to promote the protection and enhancement of the water quality of Crescent Lake and to preserve its ecological, economic, recreational and aesthetic value. Volunteering is critical to our ability to support and sustain this purpose.
 
Thank you for your support.
Russ Hutchinson
President, CLWA
  

Complete 2018 Water Quality Data Now Available

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Water quality data for 2018 has been posted. Data from our two stations can be found here.
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Our 2019 Lake Monitoring Team!
​​We thank all our supporters for your support this past year!
 
 We fund all our operations (Courtesy Boat Inspections, Lake Smart awards, Lake Monitoring equipment and testing, etc.) and materials through the generosity of your donations and volunteer hours.
 
Please become a CLWA supporter! It's easy! 
                              
or simply mail a donation to Crescent Lake Watershed Association (CLWA), P.O. Box 1298, Raymond, ME  04071.

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