Aggressive Milfoil Treatment Planned in Wolfeboro

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Today's Granite State News suggests that Wolfeboro's Back Bay is "The Nursery" for ALL of Winnipesaukee's variable milfoil problems.

"Striking at the heart of the beast:

This piece of Variable-Leaf Milfoil was pulled out of Back Bay. With it's shallow, warm waters, nutrient-rich soils, and outgoing current, Back Bay could be serving as the exotic weed's incubator for the rest of Lake Winnepesaukee...". http://granitestatenews.com/1homebody.lasso

While Back Bay has always been shallow and warm -- and always had an outgoing current -- its "nutrient-rich" water is due to multiple restaurant- and marina- development on its banks. (Add in, the silt that was allowed to flow in from up-slope at those sites). That two trailered-in boat-launching sites are right there made it a disaster waiting to happen.

Sure enough, you can watch the milfoil strands drift out into Winnipesaukee.

I think they're onto something.