New House Bill looks to ban 3 seat PWCs from half of NH Lakes

[John Mercier]

The setback isn't really about annoyance.
Though it is being done hodge-podge, it really is about wave action erosion.

We've had the current set of regulations for some time now... always the complaint that it isn't being enforced... always the complaint that not enough money exists to enforce it... but basically the lake is now showing the signs.

If we maintain the current course, it will rip through the entire watershed.

So a balance between a restriction on lake use vs abutting property owners is currently being hashed out; but it must be more restrictive to slow - hopefully even turn - the present course.

[Rich]

Just talking about this here doesn't help much, does anyone have a list of the best legislators to email to tell them that we're opposed to this?

[codeman671]

Originally Posted by John Mercier

The setback isn't really about annoyance.
Though it is being done hodge-podge, it really is about wave action erosion.

If so, then why focus on pwc? Since you ride a Yamaha pwc I am sure you will agree that the wake is minimal at most. Boats are doing the damage, not pwc.

[John Mercier]

I think they are looking to do all boats... just in a hodge-podge manner.

Most likely because of the way the laws were written and the atmosphere of push back that they expect.

We see the same thing in OHRV/Snowmobiles.
The public perceived the OHRV to be loud... but when blind tested in various manners could only distinguish the sound of the snowmobile at the same relative distances.

So the public perceptions is that only certain vessels create a wake/erosion problem... and the politicians react to that.

Personally, I think a single standard is easier to promote to operators and easier to enforce.

One of the reasons, I think pushing the wake boats to 500 is overkill.
Keep one standard for all.
But the LSRs that became bills weren't entered that way.

[ApS]

Originally Posted by John Mercier

The setback isn't really about annoyance, it really is about wave action erosion. Though it is being done hodge-podge, weve had the current set of regulations for some time now... always the complaint that it isn't being enforced... always the complaint that not enough money exists to enforce it... but basically the lake is now showing the signs. If we maintain the current course, it will rip through the entire watershed. So a balance between a restriction on lake use vs abutting property owners is currently being hashed out; but it must be more restrictive to slow - hopefully even turn - the present course.

Those of us who wait on our docks for a weekend to run its course are seeing Thursdays and Fridays similarly abused. Are these the "work.from home" Covid people?

Add to that the changes that permitted excessive exhaust noise measured next to a dock
, the "boat" that the "Jet-Ski" transformed into, thousands upon thousands of registered boats, a mostly absent enforcement of anything, urine coves, and the loudspeakers blasting f-bombs across still waters--and now--erosion.

Have the chickens come home to roost?

I've reported here (with pictures) about my neighbor's clump of seven trees falling into the lake. Two are now rolling about the bottom, sending leaves and sticks to neighbors' beaches. The largest snapped in half last winter and will leave a twelve-foot stump. Like prisoners on "Death Row", the remainder await their inevitable fate as they continue their slide into the lake.

My own shoreline has lost three trees recently with each having a girth of ten feet. (at least 120 years each of "green"). The NHMP has dutifully towed them away as "menaces to navigation".

That ALL menaces are relieved is not inevitable.