I suspect a hydrologist would know that
development is a significant contributor to the rapid Winnipesaukee water level increases.
For centuries, the forests have acted like a sponge to keep the
velocity of rain runoff moderated. (Providing us a clean, clear, "Class A" lake. Now it's a "B" -- and there
is no "Class C").
Things have changed in the last 20 years: When you build houses, garages, mini-warehouses, dry boat-storage facilities, then pave over woodlands for parking lots, ditches, new roads, culverts and driveways, the velocity of rain runoff has to increase. The rapidity-extremes and height-extremes of the lake's rise are affected, but also the
quality of water feeding into it.
That is why this thread got posted
(Who's in Charge?) in General Discussions.
There don't appear to be adequate state guidelines in temporarily trapping / sequestering runoff (which resulted in both of my neighbors' leachfields being washed into the lake following rainfall from the development "upstream").
Earlier this season, photos were placed here concerning backyard "roaring rapids". I wonder what's upstream from
there?
Quote:
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Originally Posted by GWC...
"...Rob has been a dam operator for decades..."
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Would that include 1984 and 1998? (No-wake, high water)?
