The DASH team is at work clearing the lake of Milfoil.

The four man crew from Connecticut have been working on the lake during the last week removing the Eurasian Water milfoil “forests”. Two divers suction the milfoil up into bags that, at the end of the day, are delivered to Gould Farm for composting.
Because of poor seed germination, milfoil reproduces and spreads by fragmentation. During the summer after fruiting, it produces fragments that then get carried away by currents and boaters. It’s aggressive growth kills off other native aquatic plants and makes it difficult for invertebrates that fish eat to survive. This causes the fish population to decrease.
Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting (DASH) is the extraction of plants using a diver, suction tube, a unique set of pumps mounted on a boat and a bagging or filtration system. Suction harvesting is a viable means of plant suppression because the entire plant is removed in its connective rooting system.