This page is part of the new Healthy Lake Boon project. See below for a list of existing watershed and water quality studies and reports. Over the next few months, we hope to post these reports with summaries of their data and recommendations. We will also be compiling results of various indicators of lake health to make it easier to track changes over time.
To download a zip file of end of season reports on weed management for the years 2002-2018, prepared by Lycott Inc. and Solitude Aquatic Mangement, click here.
Individual Lake Boon Studies
1963 – Weed Study Committee
1978 – Metropolitan Area Planning Council
1980 – Diagnostic Feasibility Study – MA Dept of Environmental Quality Engineering
1987 – 1978 Diagnostic Feasibility Study – Camp Dresser McKee
1999 – Nutrient and Limnological Investigation – Environmental Science Services
2000 – Wildlife Habitat Study – Environmental Science Services
2000 – Drawdown Study – Lycott Environmental
2000 – 2000 Drawdown Well Impact Report
2001 – Grant proposal for Watershed Restoration – LB Commission
2001 – Grant proposal to MA Dept of Env Mgmt – LB Commission & LB Association
2001 – 2001 Lake Management Plan – Lycott Environmental
2002 – Total Maximum Daily Loads of Phosphorus for Lake Boon – MA DEP
2002 – Watershed Management Plan – Lycott
2003 – Lake Boon Restoration Project – Lake Boon Association
2003 – Watershed Survey Report and Action Plan – LB Watershed Survey Team
2006 – June Plant Management Report – Lycott
2006 – September Plant Management Report – Lycott
2007 – 2007-May Plant Management Report – Lycott
2013 – Nuisance Vegetation Management – Lycott
2019 – Effects of Winter Drawdowns on MA lakes – Carmignai (UMA PhD thesis)
2019 – Algae and cyano-bacteria analysis – RI Dept of Health
2019 – Water sample analysis – RI Analytical
2019 – Charter Oak Country Club Analytical Report – Alpha Analytical
2019 – Eight years accumulated drawdown data – multiple data collectors
2022 – Lake Boon Health Assessment Technical Memorandum – Brown & Caldwell
2022 – Phosphorus Release from Sediment, Boon Pond – School for Marine Science & Technology, UMass Dartmouth
Lake Boon Association 