Healthy Swimming Mapper: des.nh.gov

[ishoot308]

https://www.ohiogeesecontrol.com/the...-on-your-pond/

Dan

[Merrymeeting]

We never have Canada geese on our section of the lake. There are also no properties with lakefront lawns anywhere near here. Draw your own conclusions.

[fatlazyless]

Here's four photographs that show Corcoran's Pond, the beach and its' dam getting embankment reinforced with flexible concrete mats and other dam improvements in 2019 ...... http://www.kingsburyco.com/projects/...kment-armoring .... pond, dam, embankment, town dock, and some other areas belong to the town ...... for $449,204 (what it says). There's almost always, like 95%-time, water to be flowing over this dam, fed at the opposite end of this pond by large Snow's Brook which must help to flush out the fecal bacteria.

[tis]

Many years ago there was a lady who started feeding a couple of geese that came to her yard in downtown Wolfeboro. She had no idea what she was doing and the geese started over wintering and soon grew to 7. Then t0 20 something. Now you see where they are. We never had geese around before that.

[fatlazyless]

Leavitt Town Beach, Meredith, NH, Lake Winnipesaukee just south of the Meredith/Center Harbor town line is listed for a cyanobacteria warning, today, on June 23, 2023.

Wait and see how long this NH ...... http://www.des.nh.gov/water/healthy-...wimming-mapper ..... DES .... warning remains in place? Hopefully, the forecast next six days of rain starting tonight and continuing through June 24-25-26-27-28-29 will wash that cyanobacteria away, away and away!

Up through 2022, Leavitt Beach .... www.theswimguide.org/beach/7617 ..... was open to anyone, but starting this year, 2023, it is for Meredith property tax payers only who have a facility sticker for the town transfer station on their car lower right windshield.

The description in the DES Healthy Swimming Mapper has a bloom description that says "Green specks and streaks on the water's surface observed in Blackey Cove."

Initial Cyanobacteria identified: Dolichospermum ...... www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/707293

[SAB1]

I think the rain may actually make it worse Les. Runoff just adds to the problem. Anywhere changes to the landscape creates issues. Cut down trees and make a parking for example whether gravel or tar and the water runs off whereas the trees and fauna used to soak it up.

[FlyingScot]

Lake Winnipesaukee Association is analyzing and fighting this stuff every day. I recommend membership, donations, volunteering if you want to pitch in. While it's true that many people are more careful, our increased development and air temperatures keep pushing cyanobacteria up. LWA sent a notice on this to members today on Blackey's Cove.

https://www.winnipesaukee.org/