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Vol. 3, No. 7
September 26, 2002
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Welcome to the Dolan Pond News, an email publication of Friends of Dolan Pond, a local organization that promotes the protection and preservation of the Dolan Pond Conservation Area in West Newton, MA. Please visit our website at www.dolanpond.org.
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The Community Development Block Grant Committee for West Newton will be meeting this coming Tuesday, October 1, at the Newton Community Service Center (492 Waltham Street). The meeting will begin promptly at 7:00 PM and will be held in the Adult Day Care Room. This room is most easily reached from the left-most entrance near the auditorium. It is the first room down the hall on the right (opposite the auditorium).
CDBG funding is being used for the current Dolan Pond improvement project.
Dee Spiro will give an update on this project. The agenda for the meeting
is as follows:
For questions about the meeting or the agenda, please contact Dee Sprio, CD Senior Planner, at 617-796-1125 or at dsprio@ci.newton.ma.us.
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If you have stopped by Dolan Pond lately you will have noticed a lot of changes.
Much progress has been made by the contractor.
The Cumberland Path has been completely chipped and looks very nice. The Cumberland overlook has been constructed to the point of having the helical pier supports and framework all in place. The Trex decking for the overlook and boardwalk is apparently on backorder in the color that was selected. The basic step structure from Cumberland Road North is in place and will be a big improvement..
The path has been widened considerably and the central area near Banana Pond opened up. The ugly metal gate has been partially removed. The side path (non accessible) which branches to the rear of "Irene's Pond" and the north end of Banana Pond has been chipped. Chipping has also been done on two of the short accesses to the Banana Pond shore. The Banana Pond bridge supports are in place and passage across Banana Pond is blocked at this point. The stabilized soil path here is still to be done.
The boardwalk from the Banana Pond Bridge toward Quinn Pond is progressing. The wood framing is completed on a good portion of the way down the path. The chips from the Cumberland path have been raised to the level of the boardwalk. Again the boardwalk is awaiting delivery of the Trex decking material. As mentioned in the previous newsletter, the piers needed to go down much deeper than expected, resulting in the need for substantially more piers and extension sections (which are quite costly). This may result in some restructuring of the boardwalk/overlook near Quinn Pond as a cost cutting measure. The basic structure of the steps at the end of Stratford Road is also in place.
If you are interested in more up-to date status of the project, please come to the West Newton CDBG meeting posted above. Please respect the temporarily closed areas and call any problems to the attention of the City's Planning Department at 617-796-1120. Contact Dee Spiro (Community Development Planner) or Martha Aherin Horn (Senior Environmental Planner).
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Join members and friends of the Newton Conservators on Sunday, September 29, 2-4 p.m to view an exhibit chronicling the accomplishments of this open space advocacy organization over the past 40 years. The display includes maps, photographs, brief histories and key features of local conservation areas (including Dolan Pond!) acquired during that period. Share an afternoon of celebration, memories and refreshments with like-minded friends and neighbors. While at the museum, be sure to see the exhibit on Newton's 19th century naturalist, Charles Johnson Maynard (who is known to have birded at Dolan Pond).
If you have kids and live around the Dolan Pond area, maybe you'd like to stop over at the 4th annual Wellington Parkfest on Sunday afternoon (May 29 from 1-4 pm) only a few blocks away. Wellington Park (www.wellingtonpark.org) is a small park with nice afternoon shade over the playground, located on Kilburn Road (the extension of Henshaw Street off River Street). There will be hot dogs, ice cream, soda, informal sports, and children's activities.
Dan Perlman (Biology Professor at Brandeis University), along with his son, stopped by Dolan Pond with their camera last week in search of dragonflies and damselflies. Do you know the difference? Dragonflies typically land with their paired wings outstretched and damselflies land with closed or partially open wings. Dan is the coauthor of Conserving Earth's Biodiversity, a CD-ROM that he and Harvard biologist Professor E.O. Wilson co-developed.
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Friends of Dolan Pond is a loose organization that has a website, www.dolanpond.org and an email address, "info@dolapond.org". If you are interested in the organization, please contact Ted Kuklinski at 617-969-6222, write to Friends of Dolan Pond, 24 Henshaw Terrace, West Newton, MA 02465, or send email to info@dolanpond.org. If you wish to be removed from this list, simply reply to this email with the word remove in the subject or body of the reply.
This newsletter is primarily published and distributed by email. If you wish to receive the newsletter or request to discontinue receiving the newsletter by email, please contact us as above. It is also posted in paper form on clipboards at the major entrances to the area. If you have any information, material, photos, poems, writings, etc. concerning Dolan Pond that you would like to share, please send them along. Please forward the email version along to anyone you know who might be interested in receiving it or ask them to send us an email to join our subscription list. Hope to see you at Dolan Pond soon!
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Hope to see you at Dolan Pond soon!