P.O.W.R.
Carole Berkowitz is a retired Special Ed Teacher and the Chair for Protect Our Water Resources. (POWR), a key citizens group that for the past decade has battled to protect Natick’s Town drinking water (the aquifers for which liebeneath Lake Cochituate).
POWR has joined with other groups to find safer alternatives to herbicides to deal with invasive weeds in the Lake. Recently, the citizens group and the Natick Conservation Commission were awarded a Partnership Matching Grant from the MADCR to hire a DASH boat company to remove Eurasian Water Milfoil from a five- acre area in Middle Pond.
Presently, she is the Clerk of the newly formed, Lake Cochtituate Watershed Council. In 2010 The LCWC received a grant from the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund to sponsor the LCWC Symposium. It is also the organization cited as the Applicant in the NOI Proposal (recently presented to the Conservation Commissions of Framingham, Natick, and Wayland) to enable abutters to purchase handpulling and DASH Boat services to remove Eurasian Water Milfoil from their lakefront property.