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2024 Water Level Management Plan
July 14, 2024NJDEP has released the 2024 Lake Hopatcong Water Level Management Plan for review and public comment. Comments are due by August 10, 2024 and should be emailed to parks@dep.nj.gov with the subject li...
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2024 Weed Harvesting
May 22, 2024In January 2022, the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) transferred harvesting employees and ownership of the harvesting equipment to the Lake Hopatcong Commission (the Commission). Co...
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Job Posting: Hourly Heavy Equipment Operator
May 9, 2024The Lake Hopatcong Commission is seeking candidates for one part-time seasonal Aquatic Weed Harvesting Program position. Please use the link below to navigate to the full job posting. Part Time Seaso...
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BID NOTICE – Musconetcong River Streambank Stabilization and Habitat Restoration Project
April 30, 2024MUSCONETCONG RIVER STREAMBANK STABILIZATION AND HABITAT ENHANCEMENT PROJECT ROXBURY TOWNSHIP, MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION – DELAWARE WATERSHED CONSERVATION FU...
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Job Posting: Heavy Equipment Operator
March 25, 2024The Lake Hopatcong Commission is seeking candidates for one full-time Aquatic Weed Harvesting Program position. Please use the link below to navigate to the full job posting. Final Full Time Position...
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Tagged Trout Study Enters Third Year
February 20, 2024By: Tim Clancy LAKE HOPATCONG, N.J. (2/20/204) The Brown Trout Study being conducted at Lake Hopatcong by the Lake Hopatcong Commission (LHC) in cooperation with the Knee Deep Club (KDC) along with th...
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2023 Weed Harvesting
May 15, 2023In January 2022, the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) transferred harvesting employees and ownership of the harvesting equipment to the Lake Hopatcong Commission (the Commission). N...
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Job Posting: Heavy Equipment Operator
March 24, 2023The Lake Hopatcong Commission is seeking candidates for one full-time and two seasonal Aquatic Weed Harvesting Program positions. Please use the links below to navigate to the full job posting. Full ...
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Year Two of Lake Hopatcong Trout Study
March 6, 2023By: Tim Clancy LAKE HOPATCONG, N.J. (3/6/2022) The planned three-year trout study being conducted by The Lake Hopatcong Commission in conjunction with The Lake Hopatcong Foundation and The Knee Deep C...
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Murphy Administration awards $1 million in funds for water quality improvement projects to the Lake Hopatcong Commission.
December 9, 2022Murphy Administration awards $1 million in funds for water quality improvement projects to the Lake Hopatcong Commission. Lake Hopatcong Commission partners with municipal and county governments to ad...
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2022 Weed Harvesting
June 8, 2022In January, the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) transferred harvesting employees and ownership of the harvesting equipment to the Lake Hopatcong Commission (the Commission). After t...
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Three Year Trout Tagging Study To Begin March 26th
March 5, 2022Please Release all Tagged Trout By: Tim Clancy If you can only remember one thing from this article, please, remember the headline above. Release All Tagged Trout. It’s important for t...
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Balancing Waterfront Protection with Safe Winter Recreation on Lake Hopatcong
December 21, 2021The idea of protecting in-lake structures from ice damage is not a new one. First introduced in the 1960’s, bubbler systems were meant to maintain a small area of open water along structures to prote...
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Keep Leaves Out of The Lake
November 4, 2021As the autumn leaves fall, the Lake Hopatcong Commission offers the following reminders to homeowners within the watershed on how to properly dispose of leaves and vegetative waste. You may wonder if...
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Lake Hopatcong’s Annual Drawdown
October 27, 2021In 2011, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) introduced the Lake Hopatcong Water Level Management Plan. The goal of the water level management plan is to protect the environ...
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Governor Murphy Signs $10 Million Lake’s Funding Bill
September 25, 2021On September 24th, Governor Murphy signed S-3618/A-5778, making a $10 million appropriation for management and maintenance of lakes in New Jersey for recreation and conservation purposes. Below is a P...
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NFWF awards $480,650 in grant money for streambank stabilization projects in the Upper Musconetcong River Watershed.
September 20, 2021The Lake Hopatcong Commission has partnered with the Lake Hopatcong Foundation, with in-kind contributions from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, municipal governments, Morris and...
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Balancing Waterfront Protection with Safe Winter Recreation on Lake Hopatcong
January 29, 2021Is Lake Hopatcong more fun in the summer or the winter? The answer depends on who you ask. While this question might set your mind adrift to sunny days floating in the lake, for others ice hockey an...
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2020 Water Quality Report
January 23, 2021Each year the Lake Hopatcong Commission contracts Princeton Hydro to monitor water quality on Lake Hopatcong. At the end of the season the data is analyzed and compared to over thirty years of histor...
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Keep Leaves Out of The Lake
October 28, 2020As the autumn leaves fall, the Lake Hopatcong Commission offers the following reminders to homeowners within the watershed on how to properly dispose of leaves and vegetative waste. Leaves should ne...
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NJDEP awards $206,000 in grant money to the for projects to reduce the impacts of nonpoint source pollution on waterways.
August 12, 2020Lake Hopatcong Commission partners with the Lake Hopatcong Foundation with in-kind contribution from municipal governments, and the support of local and federal officials to address sources of non-poi...
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Governor Murphy & Congresswoman Sherrill visit Lake Hopatcong
July 17, 2020Thursday, July 16th was an active day on Lake Hopatcong as we hosted Congressional Representative Mikie Sherrill for a tour of Crescent Cove in the morning and an informal dinner with Governor Phil Mu...
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HAB Grant Update – Biochar
July 7, 2020Installations of Biochar, a woody material with a high affinity for a variety of pollutants including phosphorus, began around Lake Hopatcong on Thursday July 2nd as part of the NJDEP harmful algal bl...
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NJDEP Weed Harvesting Update
July 7, 2020The following statement was provided by the NJDEP to the Lake Hopatcong Commission regarding the Weed Harvesting Program on Lake Hopatcong. "On Wednesday, June 24, there was a fatal accident involving...
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In Remembrance of Curtis Mulch
July 7, 2020It is with great sadness that we reflect on the passing of Curtis Mulch. Curt was a long-time resident of Roxbury and a fixture in the community. He, with his wife Jean brought up their family along...
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Largest Application of Phoslock in the Northeast on Lake Hopatcong
June 18, 2020Press Contacts: Colleen Lyons, Lake Hopatcong Commission, 973-601-7801, colleen@lakehopatcongcommission.org Donna Macalle-Holly, Lake Hopatcong Foundation, 201-874-1905, donna@lakehopatcongfoundation...
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2020 Weed Harvesting Program Update
May 28, 2020In response to recent inquiries about the 2020 weed harvesting program, the Commission is providing this update to address questions about weed growth, present an update on weed harvesting operations ...
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Projects under way to prevent and mitigate Harmful Algal Blooms on Lake Hopatcong
May 27, 2020State funding, supplemented by local governments and organizations, will support a variety of efforts on New Jersey’s largest lake Aeration systems, phosphorus-locking technologies, stormwater infrast...
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Special Meeting – April 27, 2020
April 23, 2020A Special Meeting of the Lake Hopatcong Commission will be held on Monday April 27, 2020 at 6:00pm. The purpose of the meeting is to adopt Resolution 20-10 to obtain a grant for the evaluation of inno...
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Canceled – April 13, 2020 LHC Meeting
April 10, 2020The regular monthly meeting of the Lake Hopatcong Commission scheduled for April 13th has been cancelled. The LHC plans to meet virtually on May 11th and will provide additional details on how to atte...
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LHC Awarded $500K to Combat HABs in 2020
March 10, 2020The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announced that the Lake Hopatcong Commission would receive $500,000 in harmful algal bloom (HAB) grant funding, using money allocated by the ...
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August 19 – Meeting Recap
August 26, 2019The August 19th meeting of the Lake Hopatcong Commission was a regular monthly meeting. In addition to conducting regular business, the Commission received updates from the Lake Hopatcong Foundation,...
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July 8, 2019 – LHC Meeting Recap
July 11, 2019On July 8, 2019 the Lake Hopatcong Commission held their regular monthly meeting. Due to the advisory against direct bodily contact with the waters of Lake Hopatcong the meeting focused on the harmfu...
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State Update – July 3, 2019
July 3, 2019On July 3, 2019 the NJDEP issued an update on their advisory for Lake Hopatcong The Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) advisory for Lake Hopatcong remains in effect. DEP sampling indicates that cell counts for...
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State Update – July 2, 2019
July 2, 2019On July 2, 2019 the State of New Jersey’s Governor’s Office and Department of Environmental Protection provided an update on the status of their harmful algal bloom advisory to local officials and gro...
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NJ DEP Issues Advisory for Lake Hopatcong
June 27, 2019The NJ Department of Environmental Protection is advising the public to avoid swimming in, or contact with Lake Hopatcong water due to an extensive Harmful Algal Bloom, or HAB, confirmed this week by ...
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Update – Harmful Algal Blooms
June 25, 2019*** Update *** June 25, 2019 **** Update **** The NJDEP has issued the following advisory regarding harmful algal blooms in Lake Hopatcong. "A previous notification was sent detailing the results of a...
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Harmful Algal Bloom Advisory
June 19, 2019Updated June 25, 2019 In their June 20, 2019 report, NJDEP incorrectly named Byram Beach as having a confirmed Harmful Algal Bloom. Samples were actually collected at Pebble Beach and Sand Harbor Bea...
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2019 Weed Harvesting Season
June 18, 2019Weed harvesting operations for Lake Hopatcong have begun. Full Schedule *Phase 1: May 22 – June 28 (5 weeks) 1 large harvester and 1 small harvester will be docked at Hopatcong State Park for traini...
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Lake Refill – December 15, 2018
December 14, 2018The New Jersey State Park Service will begin refilling Lake Hopatcong this weekend after the completion of its five-year drawdown. Sixty (60) inches of water was drained from the lake beginning on Sat...
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Lake Hopatcong Clean-up Quantities
November 28, 2018Five years ago, during the first lake-wide cleanup, approximately 23,000 pounds of debris was pulled from along the 50-mile shoreline. This year, the Lake Hopatcong Foundation partnered with the Lake...
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Fall 2018 Drawdown Information
August 22, 2018The following information is being posted by the Lake Hopatcong Commission at the request of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection & Hopatcong State Park. "All Lake Hopatcong users...
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Cyanotoxin Testing Results
August 4, 2018On July 24, 2018, Princeton Hydro conducted the first of two cyanobacteria/cyanotoxin sampling events on Lake Hopatcong. Cyanotoxins are a family of compounds produced by blue-green algae (also called...
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Weed Harvesting Operators in Training
May 14, 2018Training for the harvester operators began on May 14th and will continue for the next couple of weeks. Full Schedule *Phase 1: May 14 – June 15 (5 weeks) 1 large harvester and 1 small harvester will ...
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Environmental Updates
May 6, 2018April 2018 Environmental Update The information below was obtained by the Commission through a conversation with the environmental contractor (Active Environmental) for Valiant Contracting in Jeffers...
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Lake Hopatcong Fund – Signed!
February 8, 2018Legislation has been signed by Governor Christie creating the Lake Hopatcong Fund. The legislation dedicates $500,000 annually for the protection, preservation, restoration, maintenance, management an...