Metrowest Daily News 3/26/10: DCR funds projects in Natick, Wayland, Upton. The grants include money to hire a company to run a diver-assisted suction harvester, or DASH, boat to remove invasive weeds in Natick's portion of Lake Cochituate.

Wayland and Framingham have been awarded a 2-to-1 matching grant from DCR to help fight Eurasian milfoil in North Pond of Lake Cochituate  Wayland and Framingham each committed $4,000, and the DCR $16,000.  The funds will be used:
1.    To re-deploy and clean a barrier net keeping milfoil fragments from entering ,
2.    To use diver-assisted suction harvesting (DASH) to establish a milfoil-free boat channel between Middle Pond/Snake Brook Cove and North Pond, and for
3.    Spot treatment in northern-most third of North Pond  with diquat dibromide, if required.