SOUTHWICK – The Southwick Lake Management Committee brought up a topic of new business on Thursday night in the land use room at the town hall.
The committee discussed the importance of putting in four new moorings throughout parts of Congamond Lake. In order to make that happen, the Southwick Police Department dive team will be doing a dive search on Friday June 17th around 10 a.m.
The dive team will be using one of the town boats, including a tri-haul pontoon which will be used to store any objects that they may find in the lake.
Southwick Lake Management committee meeting, June 9th
Chairman of the Lake Management Committee, Dick Grannells, recognizes what the dive team does to prepare for this.
“These things are small projects they do for us,” said Grannells. “They have to go out and they have to practice dive.”
Grannells believes that there is strong importance to the dive team replacing the old moorings with new ones.
“The ice gets so thick and if you get wind when it goes out, it just takes everything,” said Grannells. “It drags out to deep water and sinks.”
A key adjustment that the dive team will be doing is putting augers in the bottom of the lake. The moorings will become augers in the lake and as a result, they won’t be dragged by ice.
There is also a process as to how the replacement of moorings will be most effective.
“Bit by bit, we’re doing this to our most vulnerable ones, one’s where the ice has the most motion,” said Grannells.
