In a blow to the 400-member Stockbridge Bowl Association, the state has moved to block a test chemical treatment this spring in a portion of the lake.
The Department of Environmental Protection on Tuesday rejected an appeal by the association, which was pushing for the use of the herbicide fluridone to combat a weed infestation at the southern tip of the lake.
The goal is to use the town’s current weed harvester in tandem with a new mobile trailer-conveyor hooked to a pickup truck to dump harvested weeds at the town beach and the town-owned parking lot by the waterfall at the lake’s outlet. The weeds would be transported to property owned by a landscaper, where he would turn them into mulch.