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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
1) The newish McMansion next door, which has "issues", converted a garage to an additional bedroom, and shares a leachfield with a long-existing cottage that added bedroom s ( already with "issues"), is presently on a "micro-lot"—due to encroachment by a Mega-McMansion (which has even-bigger "issues"). 
2) The building of the McMansion's concrete basement next door blocked the natural flow of rainfall across a wide area. That blockage has increased an existing rivulet's flow between our properties. 
Now it is showing a large clump of algae at the lake's edge— in April. 
3) The photograph that follows is very similar view to 80% of our 1-acre lot: IMHO, it represents how shorelines should have been historically "maintained".
The photo shows mostly "second-growth" pine trees and a covering of natural forest "duff". With the passage of another half-century, many trees will be culled by Mother Nature. After 54 years, our trees are fewer, but 'way larger, than those pictured. The forest floor looks identical, however.
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APS: It is too bad what has happened at lake Winnipesaukee. Unfortunately, the Live Free or Die mentality is good in some instances and bad in others. With respect to the rampant building on the lake over the last 20-years, this mentality was mostly bad as folks did whatever they pleased when constructing their 5,000 square foot summer "cottages" . I agree that there should have been a buffer around the lake like you see in many of Maine's lakes, but it wasn't to be.
As one old timer said to me recently, "Lake Winnipesaukee's water quality is clearly in accelerated decline and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it at this point. It has been loved to death. " I feel fortunate to be on one of the smaller surrounding water bodies that hasn't been as damaged.