First Cyanobacteria Warnings of 2024 Issued for Lake Winnipesaukee

[tis]

i agree, but we usually heard about ecoli not cyanobacteria.

[fatlazyless]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Friday, July 12, 2024: ..... these small white and blue speckled surface growth algae all across the 7-acres.

To be fair, these algae growth was here yesterday on Friday, and was gone today on Saturday. It rained overnight and apparently cleaned it away plus the pond's water level came back to full with water now running over the dam boards. The dam boards got pulled a couple days ago for the big rain on Wednesday night.

[John Mercier]

Originally Posted by tis

i agree, but we usually heard about ecoli not cyanobacteria.

That was the issue at the time, still is, but E coli populations are impossible to see with the naked eye.

But we never talked about spending thousands, or even millions, of dollars on a fix that no one is sure what the long term implications are.

We no longer farm or graze animals near the water, but they still have problems with E coli. Those warnings usually hit the same beaches year after year - shallow water and low circulation.

[ApS]

How did I miss this long-term fix?

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Here's a N.H. Dept Environmental Fact Sheet from 2020 ..... http://www.des.nh.gov/sites/g/files/...20-01/sp-5.pdf .... that recommends planting pine trees within 150' of the lake.

How cyanobacteria green does the lake need to be before Lake Winnipesaukee water-fronters will tear out their green grass lawns and plant fast growing pine trees?

Is it time to return your GREEN GRASS LAWN to the WHISPERING PINES as it once was?

1) The last time I boated on Wolfeboro's Lake Wentworth (canoe, 1992), I was impressed by the clarity of Wentworth's waters.

2) When I later looked at a lakefront house for sale there, was impressed again by the depth to which pine needles had collected under their "Cathedral Pine" forests.

3) I can't remember when Lake Winnipesaukee's waters became green.