Specifications include, but are not limited to: This element of the Water Chestnut Management Program will have three subcomponents. The main focus will be on the removal of water chestnut (Trapa natans) by hand from Lake Champlain, including adjoining wetlands and tributaries. All locations between Lake Converse and Cedar Bay accessed through the Converse Bay VT Fish and Wildlife Boat Access (44.295780, -73.291777) located in Charlotte, VT to Stony Point (43.743678, -73.366259) two miles south of the George Davis Fish and Wildlife Boat Access located in Orwell, VT are included in this component of the management plan (approximately 1,000+ acres). The second component is to work in tandem with the State’s staff and work crews to survey and harvest at sites that have historic large populations of water chestnut and include: Dead Creek, Little Otter Creek, Whitney Creek, Fort Ticonderoga Bay and the LaChute River, and Bulwagga Bay. The third component will be to assist the State’s staff and technicians with efforts at ten (10) other water bodies where management efforts are ongoing. These include Brookside Pond, Coggman Creek, Coggman Pond, Horton Pond, Lemon Fair River, Parsons Mill Pond, Pelkey’s Swamp, Phillips Pond, Richville Pond, and Root Pond.
