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Organization Purpose
- ORPOA provides an interactive space for the individuals and the communities, neighborhoods and towns sharing
the recreational resources of Otis Reservoir. Many of these groups have their own associations.
- ORPOA, at times, has served as an umbrella organization to help create a unified front in support of common
causes such as Chapter 91.
- Representatives from each area share ideas and questions about Otis Reservoir using ORPOA as a common communications
thread.
- ORPOA commissions annual water quality testing of the reservoir, which costs about $3000, and comes from dues money,
which is currently $10.00 per family.
- The Board of Directors has a member on the Lakes and Ponds Association, which gives us ideas on what is going on in other
bodies of water, such as:
- weed control,
- control of zebra mussels (and other exotic species,)
- overall water quality, and
- other ecological strategies to maintain the lake quality.
- ORPOA sponsors and organizes an annual clean up.
- The ORPOA continues to work closely with State representatives on things that affect us directly, such as the upcoming
implementation of new rules and regulations on the Reservoir.
- OPPOA input was a key influence on the way in which the State regulates the water level in the spring.
Now if we could get Mother Nature to get on the same page we would be in seventh heaven.
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