Alliance Report

In what may be a repeat of last year’s events, a series of significant late season rainstorms has increased the lake to a flood level when it should be at its lowest to accommodate winter ice.

The logic is inescapable: unless state funding is increased, the more that milfoil spreads in Ossipee Lake, the more that local communities will have to pay to control it.

Professional divers have been hired to hand-pull milfoil from Danforth Brook to upper Danforth Pond, and volunteers are needed to work from boats to assist them.

Ossipee Lake Alliance has asked the United States Army Corps. of Engineers (ACoE) to determine whether noise and lights from the proposed racetrack on Mount Whittier will adversely affect Ossipee Lake property owners.

In the letter, Madison Board of Selectmen chairman John Arruda says his Board has a need “to address [the] concerns brought forward by our citizens.”