Annual Meeting 2015
This year’s Annual Meeting will be held on July 11, 2015. For further details click here.
Summer Jobs for Local Teens
All this snow shoveling is a reminder that soon the Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance will be hiring teens who like to shovel and would love to work outside this summer helping to protect our lakes from erosion issues. If you Read More
The Ducks are Coming!
November is a busy month for waterfowl. I look forward to seeing the variety of beautiful ducks as they migrate through our area and I hope you do, too. My binoculars and spotting scope are kept handy so I can Read More
Fall 2014 Newsletter
Below is a direct link to the Fall 2014 Newsletter in PDF form, with a preview of the first page: WLA fall 2014 Final pdf
2014 Boat Parade
Some photos of the 2014 Boat Parade have now been posted! Thanks to all the fun loving souls who motored around the lake, showing their red, white and blue colors, and the enthusiastic waves of folks on the shore. Every Read More
Invasive Plant Patrol!
Wilson Lake has an Invasive Plant Patrol Team! Nine people attended the Volunteer Lake Monitor Program on June 14th at the Acton Town Hall and six more signed up at the Annual Meeting on July 5. It is so exciting Read More
Water Quality Testing
Have you noticed that every other Monday there has been a boat out in the middle of Wilson Lake with several people doing some strange looking activities? For many years our own Dan Orino has been testing the clarity, dissolved Read More
Boat Parade Moved to Sunday July 6th 10am
Join us for our third annual Boat Parade on July 4th Sunday July 6th at 10am. We’ll assemble in the canal near the public ramp and follow the lead boat as we parade around the perimeter of Wilson Lake. This event has Read More
Fireworks and Lakes
We all love the excitement of seeing the bright colors of fireworks as they burst into the night sky and draw oohs and aahs from the onlookers. For those observing from a lake or lake shore vantage point, it is Read More
What Happened to the Red Buoys?
The Red Buoys WLA’s core mission is water quality – preserving the asset that brought all of us here in the first place – Wilson Lake. Some time ago, there was concern that high speed wakes could erode shoreline soils Read More