Mohegan Lake Weekly Roundup: Yee-haw

• There is a public hearing on Monday, May 6th for the Faith Bible Church application with the Planning Board at Yorktown Town Hall.
• There is a community meeting at the Mohegan Highlands beach this Friday at 2:30pm after our clean up. Everyone is welcome.  Email me at YorktownCode@gmail.com if you don't know where it is. 
• A quick thinking and spry Mohegan Highlands Property Owner on Kimble Avenue thwarted a home invasion attempt, detained him (as another was able to evade apprehension), then the police arrived and made an arrest.  I've always thought of us Mohegan Highlanders as formidable opponents.  Now I've got proof.
• The town demolished the chimney on the Holland Club.

MHPOA Projects: Reclaiming The Footpath

Several of our Mohegan Highlands Property Owners Association members have brought up the fact that we own easement rights to for a foot path from Kimble Ave. down to the MHPOA beach.  Perhaps we can make it a project during our beach project day on April 27th.  Beach clean up day is April 20th.  You guys will be there, right?  We have to figure out how to fix our big wooden dock, set the floating dock and secure the buoy lines.  Plus getting all the tables out and general housekeeping. Laura always says that many hands make for light work. 

An historic map of the MHPOA development provided by Janina Rubinowitz. If you look really close and have a huge screen, you may be able to see the easement area. 

Steps from Mohegan Ave down to the upper parking lot.  A chainsaw and leaf blower could be a nice start to a reclamation project. 

Chain link fence defines the easement area.  You can see a tree (probably from Sandy) that is laying over the path. 

There's a perfectly good pile of wood chips in the upper parking lot that can be put to use.  Anybody need it?

Mohegan Highlands Property Owners Association (MHPOA), We've Got a Problem

Nothing we can't overcome, but there are dock issues.  Biggest issue is probably the T-shaped, big wooden dock.  The good ice we had this year was bad to the wood.  The floating dock was ripped off it's anchors, but seems to be intact.  There's the another, small T-shaped dock that I think we should aim to rehabilitate.  Oh, and there's a random floating dock that ended up in the turtle cove; we should advertise a found dock and if no one claims it, perhaps we float out in the middle of the lake for longer swims? Point being, we're hoping we can do this in house and not have to go out to bid (town requires 3) to make these repairs.

Below are some reconnaissance photos I took this weekend.  We have beach clean up/repair days scheduled for April 20th and 27th.  We're actually going to be looking into rehabilitating the tennis courts (not as tennis courts cause it's so expensive) and the field up the hill.

You can see that header beam is cracked just to the left of the center float.  The whole thing is dipping there.  I think we have to detach that section of the "T", float it to shore, repair and re-float/re-attach.

You can see where the ice pushed it into the shore and turned over 45 degrees; it's still anchored with chains--firmly.

Our ghost dock into turtle cove.

The decking looks to be in decent shape.

Need to advertise this to the other home owners associations.  If it goes unclaimed, we can certainly put it to use.

Yum.  No blue-green algae in sight.