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Originally Posted by Outlaw
A1:
If you haven't been on this lake long, you would not remember about 6 six years ago, the whole lake was declared a no wake zone due to extreme amount of snow, causing an excessive amount of run off from the mountains forcing the lake level well above full lake. Not only was this an issue for boaters, of all types, but property owners as well. Natural erosion, property flooding, homes suffering flood damage and wild life around the lake loosing the natural elements for building homes/nests as much of it was under water. The lake has what is referred to as a "full lake" level and it is dropped in the fall to accommodate the spring melt and run off from the mountains.
A2: Boating doesn't stop in September on this lake, it decreases due to all the vacation boaters and snow bunnies leaving for the season or not visiting as frequently.
A3: That dull black ring as you refer to it as, is there every year when the lake is lowered. Is this ring you're speaking of on your property?? Around the western side of the lake the ring we have is more yellowish in color and is created from pollen. It's possible the ring you have is run off from your septic system indicating its failing...
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Maybe I should have sharpened my questions (since I can't improve readership qualities of others).
1) What "good" is done by
THE WATER RELEASED from Winnipesaukee?
Hydro-electric? Drinking water for Massachusetts? Recreation?
2) Why do swim-spaghetti-sized
WHITE FOAMY LUMPS mostly appear in September -- after the boating stops, and Winnipesaukee water starts to drain or evaporate?
3) Anybody notice the dull black "bathtub-ring" since the level has dropped on Winnipesaukee these past two weeks? And how "clean" the shoreline appears below it?
OK. My boating tour today disclosed a
satin black (scratch dull) "bathtub-ring" for miles and miles, including Rattlesnake Island. I was looking for a scientific explanation. (My "working theory" is petroleum-based deposits. I know...
DUH)
There was no yellow ring. The yellow pollen ring appears every year about June 12th, and gradually disappears over July and August.
The lake was "overfull" in 1984 and 1998.
I was here for both, and don't recall a no-wake restriction for 1984. We probably wouldn't have been concerned anyway, as we didn't own (by choice) a boat that would produce much wake.