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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
Since my shoreline faces north, it has gotten the worst of Millennia-worth of winds in the winter, when the ice prevents erosion; therefore, it is the newest shore to face erosion from cruisers.
More recently, wakes (particularly big cruisers), have taken away the soil and caused the rest of my lot to "subside"; that is, to sink, due to rain-runoff sending mud into the lake. The soil is responding to the shoreline erosion through runoff and gravity. The shoreline lost to the lake (through shoreline erosion) must be made-up for by additional mud. It's a shame to watch it happen so quickly, and it's not doing the lake any good, either.
While a HB162 speed limit may cause increased wakes from some of the "Express Cruisers" and the "slowed" 4½-ton fast boats, it is nothing compared to what has been happening since the first oversized cruisers appeared. (About 1990. But even back then, they proceeded slowly -- like...cruisers!).
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Any chance you can do something about the erosion? Does the law allow you to place boulders and such at the water's edge? I know in Maine (I own some land there) we have all kinds of laws preventing one from altering the shoreline but it seems like NH is a bit more reasonable about the prevention of erosion based on the breakwaters and such I see on the lake.