Panel Tightens Rules For Pond Invoice Approvals

Great Pond Advisory Committee · Meeting of June 17, 2026

GROTON — The Great Pond Advisory Committee heard complaints about crowding, drinking and jet skis at Sargisson Beach and tightened its invoice-approval process. Guest Chaney Harper relayed a resident's account of a Sunday in which police visited the beach twice after calls and found "nothing to see here." A member said the same resident reported a crowded parking lot, loud music, drinking, and cooking on the beach. The committee voted 6-0 by roll call to approve February's minutes and separately voted to require committee sign-off on pond-treatment invoices before they reach the town.

Members reported water levels down 10 to 17 inches amid the driest first five and a half months recorded in Boston in 150 years, and a budget review turned up a roughly $4,795 discrepancy tied to a double payment to vendor Solitude that the town had already been refunded.

In the full story:

• Minutes approval and invoice procedure
• Lost Lake and Knops Pond: water levels and weed treatment
• Sargisson Beach: crowding, drinking and enforcement
• Baddacook Pond: weed harvester and water level
• Whitney Pond
• Duck Pond
• Budget reconciliation
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 2,348 words

Source: the Great Pond Advisory Committee meeting of June 17, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.