A bill to re-set Ossipee Lake's benchmark from 410 ft. to 407.25 ft. has cleared the state senate and is headed to the governor for signature.
The boat speed limit on Lake Winnipesaukee doesn't apply to Ossipee Lake, but what's being learned from the speed limit law is important for all of the state's large lakes.
Poll shows 69 percent of respondents want limits and oppose the bill to increase the daytime limit to 55 mph in the "broads," a proposal, backed by an anti-speed limit group, that recently passed out of the Senate on a 13-11 vote and is awaiting a vote in the House.
Ossipee Lake is one of the area's bodies of water where landlocked salmon can be caught and keep between now and the end of September.
Most of the snow is gone but the ice continues to cover the lake and bays.
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