June 18: Took a walk around the Meredith Town Docks, Hesky Park, and Clough Park, this morning, to get a good look on the cyanobacteria situation. The NH DES has about ten or more 8.5"x11" orange advisory warning signs posted along the large dock boardwalk, town boat launch ramp, Hesky Park and Clough Park shoreline areas.
The grass in both parks close to the water is pretty thick and full of Canada goose poop plus there were maybe 25 Canada goose, adults and yellow goslings present in Clough Park that were eating the green grass.
Could be that mowing the grass will result in grinding up the goose poop into smaller pieces that get into the lake due to rain or wind.
You know that ONE determined ....
.... person could clean the goose poop all up from both Clough Park and Hesky Park in ONE day or less with a rake, shovel, large dustpan, trash barrel, work gloves and face mask. The two waterfront grassy park areas town parks on both sides of Bay Point at Mills Falls Hotel have about 100-yards, each, of waterfront, or two hundred yards-total, of goose poop polluted green grass. The grass area that's closest to the lake water is the worst.
The goose poop pollution is most thick and dense very close to the Winnipesaukee Lake water probably because the goose are more safe when close to the water so they have a potential easy escape while eating the grass in case a predator like a wily coyote tiptoes in to attack.