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Originally Posted by fpartri497
 last thursday, I visited the dam only to find it was closed down to just a trickle of water. even though the lake level rose four to five in. the night before. does anybody know if It has been re-opened since? |
A friend who lives on Silver Lake (the outflow of Winnisquam) bought a new Seadoo boat this year, and has not been able to launch it on Silver lake yet...water's too high.
All the outflow of Winnipesaukee coupled with the streams and brooks inflow into Winnisquam and Silver lake (not to mention the spring fed areas with in the lakes) has kept the water flow extremely high down river. The Winnipesaukee river where it crosses rte 140 in Tilton is still very high and the rapids just south of 140 seem to have an extremely fast current flow.
Hopefully most people will agree that the dam operators have done quite a job this past year under very trying. unpredicatable, and unusual weather conditions. (Example: Lochmere golf course got a lot of water late this past week, we got very little here in Alton Bay, where I work in Rochester had a lot in just a few heavy downpours, and Waukewan in Merideth where we played golf today received a lot this past week. Unfortunately, the heavy downpours have hit areas which have inflows to Winnipesaukee, Winnisquam, and Silver lake, resulting in the high flow downstream in Tilton.)