Letter: Maine’s DEP needs to protect water resources

SUN JOURNAL • June 23, 2023

Despite weeks of rain, Tripp Pond in Poland is at the lowest levels we have witnessed. Tripp Lake Camp received permission from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to blast a decades long beaver pond and remove 6 beavers. The camp used itsinfluence in Augusta to do what no other lakeside homeowner could ever imagine doing.Why does the camp want lake levels low? It has a grandfathered, enormous concrete pad — previously under water — that it uses to keep campers happy when learning to swim. Apparently, that is a more precious need than a healthy lake. Maine’s DEP needs to do a better job of protecting this resource. ~ Dorthea Seybold, Poland