As program coordinator, D’Andrea will work with individual volunteers, lake associations, and children’s camps to establish volunteer efforts across the lake system to search for and report on invasive exotic species such as variable milfoil.
Under state law, that means the planning boards of all potentially affected towns must be treated as abutters and invited to comment on the application.
The directors of Totem Pole Park, the largest campground on Ossipee Lake, have applied to the Freedom Planning Board for approval to remain open during the winter.
In addition to considering the impact on the town, the Board expects to hear concerns about the potential impact on neighboring towns, including Ossipee and Freedom.
The state has denied an application by Pine Landing Beach Club Inc. to expand its congregate mooring field on the big lake from 39 moorings to 45. A public hearing was held on the matter on March 16th.
A global positioning unit. A special permit to apply chemicals. A dive team to hand-pluck weeds at the depths of the lake, $86,000 and a group of scientists at the University of New Hampshire for research.
The pamphlet, called “The Special Places of Ossipee Lake,” is receiving wide distribution through funding provided by Public Service of New Hampshire.
The variable milfoil infestation in Phillips Brook on Leavitt Bay was treated with an aquatic herbicide as scheduled on June 16th, according to Ken Warren of the Department of Environmental Services.
Abutting property owners and others opposed to increasing the number of boat moorings at Deer Cove were in the majority at yesterday’s state hearing on the matter, according to an official who was present.
According to the application, the Association wants to increase its boat moorings by nearly 80%, from 19 to 34.
Ossipee Lake Alliance is looking for a few good sets of eyes to keep an eye out for variable milfoil and other exotic plant species that could take hold in the lake and spread around its shoreline.
There was that famous New York Daily News “Drop Dead” headline when Gerald Ford’s administration told the city that it wouldn’t bail out the financially troubled Big Apple. Our state government treated the people of Tamworth with far more disdain in March.
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