SOUTHWICK – The federal Natural Resources Conservation Service will hire a consultant to conduct an “on-the-ground” study of Lake Congamond to establish a flood plan.

“They are in the final stages of hiring an on-the-ground consultant,” Richard Grannells of the city’s Lake Management Committee said during a recent committee meeting.

“They got the funding for it,” he said of the consulting work that would likely begin in late spring or early summer.