Dear New Elm Lot Owners;

We all share an interest in the New Elm Estates Drive, the road leading to our lots in Molega lake. New Elm Estates is a wonderful group of private and secluded waterfront lots rich in wildlife. Various people have enjoyed their lands in a variety of ways over the years. More recently, a group of us have been travelling regularly to our lots in New Elm Estates. One owner is nearing completion of their cottage on Lot 18 and several other owners are camping and more regularly visiting the area. Several of the owners have been contributing on a yearly basis to a road fund since 2010 and through those contributions have achieved some of the needed improvements on the New Elm Estates Drive. There is more work to do to restore the road surface, perform ditching, drainage, and woods clearing thereby ensuring our continued use and enjoyment of our lands. So far, eight owners have contributed to the upkeep and improvement to the road; although, that road serves the 22 waterfront lots as well as several larger parcels of land through which it travels.

We are reaching out to all owners so that we can expand the amount of the work that can be done each year. We hope all owners will share the goal to make the road completely passable again and then to continue with a smaller amount of maintenance-only upkeep.

Our annual contribution has been $400.00 CA PER LOT. Those who contributed so far agreed that was a reasonable amount. Two of the owners took the initiative to establish a bank account in 2009 held by them in trust for all the New Elm Estate Lot Owners for the purpose of paying for road work. The account is held at ScotiaBank in Bridgewater, NS.

This year our total contributions paid for $3612.00 in improvements. In addition to the paid work the owners volunteered a significant amount of effort in brush trimming and tree cutting along the road way. They prepared the area around the roadway before this years construction work and began work on another area that is high priority for future years construction.

Some of the owners have prepared a brief web page so we can check-in from time to time and see the progress. We encourage you to look there to see some photographs and maps of our road and the progress and plans. (about-the-road)

Owners usually contribute their share of the money in the spring. One of our volunteers coordinates our contractor to start work after the rainy season to do as much as we can with that year's contributions. We have contracted to Darrell Naugler, a local expert that we have all worked with quite well over the years.

Our informal arrangement has been quite successful with full voluntary participation by all the owners that we have contacted. We hope you will join us in our efforts at maintaining the road for everyone's use and enjoyment as well as to maintain the value in the lots that we all own in New Elm Estates.

Thank you
Danke schon!