DES to Hold Public Hearing on Goodhue Dredging and Dock Replacement

Freedom—August 7, 2026—DES will hold a hearing on August 17 to seek public input on a dredge and fill application by Goodhue Boat Company for its Broad Bay marina.

The hearing will be at 5 p.m. at DES headquarters, 29 Hazen Drive in Concord. DES canceled a previous hearing date after being advised the notice cited the wrong applicant, and the notices were sent to the wrong town.

Goodhue is seeking approval to dredge the area in front of its boat docks to improve navigation. The site is where Danforth Brook, sometimes called Stony Brook, enters Broad Bay from Danforth Pond.

The application also seeks approval to reconfigure the docks and make them permanent. Verdantas Engineering is representing the applicant.

If the application is approved, Goodhue said the reconfigured docking area will be reduced from 2,043 sf. to 1,882 sf. Boat slips would be reduced by one, from 68 to 67.

The expected impact to the wetlands includes 9,857 sf. of dredging, and the removal of 168 cubic yards of material. No work is proposed for the shoreline.

DES said Goodhue must coordinate with the State’s Aquatic Invasive Species program to address the possibility that variable milfoil will be disturbed and spread by the dredging.

Decades ago, the marina area was the first Ossipee Lake site to be confirmed as infested with the invasive weed. The site was last treated with approved chemicals in 2018, with treatment of the brook a year later, per local sources.

DES’s Land Resources Management Program (LRMP) said there may be rare plants at the site, including coastal plain grass-leaved goldenrod, a State-designated “threatened” species, and comb-leaved mermaid weed, a State “endangered” species.

In order to proceed with an Ecological Review, Goodhue must hire a qualified botanist to conduct plant surveys for the plants this month or in September, when the plants are likely to emerge, per LRMP.

A review by the N.H. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources concluded that there are no historic properties affected by the project.

Written comments may be submitted to the State, per instructions in the announcement memo.

Goodhue purchased the former Ossipee Lake Marina in 2021. The business began as Bayview Marina in the early 1960s.