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AC2717 · 06-21-2023, 10:17 PM

What I want to know, is what is really the impact of 44 housing units not on the water going to have on the boat ramp, are they assuming that there will be 44 or more boats being launched and retrieved everyday? Because that is ridiculous. Do these units have more than 2 parking spaces in order to store their boats on trailers to get to the water? can they even park trailers on the property to store their boats there? Seems to me the towns response has nothing to do with the project. This fight would be more genuine to me if they were to cut Center Harbor direct services to Moultonboro, services that would be directly affected by the project. Or why not only cut off Moultonboro residents from the ramp and not the public.

With more and more public access being taken away at lakes and ponds all over NH, and other states in New England for that matter, this seems to be a major trend and problem and I believe Center Harbor is using this development as an excuse to shut down their access to Lake Winni to others as many other towns have done on their access to other lakes.
As a fisherman just this year alone there has been 5 lakes that I know of that I can no longer have access to, boat launch nor roof top launch, because the towns folk or land owners around the public fresh water have seen it fit to change the public ramp the town owns and make it resident only or shut it down all together. An example - Canobie Lake, ramp open last year, now Windham gated the access and locked it and you need to be a resident and get a key, and the roof top launch in Salem is Salem residents only. Reasons were complaints about noise and trash blaming fisherman and others. On Big Island Pond and Canobie there were town rules put in place even before ramps were shut down that you could not fish docks or within 25 feet of docks due complaints of property owners? But yet the State says the water is public up to the high water mark on the land, so how are these rules possible??? and they have a state agency Fish and game enforcing these town rules? This remains unchecked and unchallenged.

I pay a license fee in order to fish State public fresh water and I cannot get to the state owned public waters because the town land is cutting off the access that was once provided. More and more lakes and ponds and waters have been cut off over the past 5 years. By cutting off access to public waters it is going to create more pressure on other waters and they will eventually be cut off due to complaints or pressure on the water system.

06-21-2023, 10:17 PM	#16
AC2717 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Maynard, MA & Paugus Bay Posts: 2,585 Thanks: 756 Thanked 356 Times in 268 Posts	What I want to know, is what is really the impact of 44 housing units not on the water going to have on the boat ramp, are they assuming that there will be 44 or more boats being launched and retrieved everyday? Because that is ridiculous. Do these units have more than 2 parking spaces in order to store their boats on trailers to get to the water? can they even park trailers on the property to store their boats there? Seems to me the towns response has nothing to do with the project. This fight would be more genuine to me if they were to cut Center Harbor direct services to Moultonboro, services that would be directly affected by the project. Or why not only cut off Moultonboro residents from the ramp and not the public. With more and more public access being taken away at lakes and ponds all over NH, and other states in New England for that matter, this seems to be a major trend and problem and I believe Center Harbor is using this development as an excuse to shut down their access to Lake Winni to others as many other towns have done on their access to other lakes. As a fisherman just this year alone there has been 5 lakes that I know of that I can no longer have access to, boat launch nor roof top launch, because the towns folk or land owners around the public fresh water have seen it fit to change the public ramp the town owns and make it resident only or shut it down all together. An example - Canobie Lake, ramp open last year, now Windham gated the access and locked it and you need to be a resident and get a key, and the roof top launch in Salem is Salem residents only. Reasons were complaints about noise and trash blaming fisherman and others. On Big Island Pond and Canobie there were town rules put in place even before ramps were shut down that you could not fish docks or within 25 feet of docks due complaints of property owners? But yet the State says the water is public up to the high water mark on the land, so how are these rules possible??? and they have a state agency Fish and game enforcing these town rules? This remains unchecked and unchallenged. I pay a license fee in order to fish State public fresh water and I cannot get to the state owned public waters because the town land is cutting off the access that was once provided. More and more lakes and ponds and waters have been cut off over the past 5 years. By cutting off access to public waters it is going to create more pressure on other waters and they will eventually be cut off due to complaints or pressure on the water system. __________________ Capt. of the "No Worries"