The Watershed Management Plan for the Ossipee Lake Lower Bays and Danforth Ponds needs input from residents and land owners. An action plan is part of the planning process and will address conservation, restoration and mitigation priorities to maintain our current high quality waters in this area. What our children and grandchildren inherit will depend on how we care for our local waters. The forum will be held on July 12 in Freedom.
There will be an Important Ossipee Watershed water quality meeting today, June 19th, at 5pm at Freedom Town Hall. For the first time, residents of Ossipee, Freedom, Effingham, Tamworth, and Madison will be able to see an assessment of our local water quality based on a full 10 years of data. Many local volunteers and scientists have been involved in this program supported in part by all of the area's towns.
The dam is wide open but the water remains high due to the heavy snow-melt. Here's what to expect next.
Winter is over. The official 2014 ice-out date for Ossipee Lake was Tuesday, April 22, at 2 pm.
HB 292 will increase the boat registration fee by $2 and generate approximately $200,000 in additional revenue to help keep invasive variable milfoil under control in infested waters. State Senator Jed Bradley, who represents the Ossipee Lake area, co-sponsored the measure in January.
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services has posted a report on the results of last year's Volunteer Lakes Assessment Program, which keeps tabs on the state of state's waters. Ossipee Lake Alliance participates in this program annually.
Spring has arrived in the form of melting ice and a rising lake level. Plus, a discussion about how low the lake level can go during winter.
It's been a real winter, with lots of ice and snow. Most of it is still on the ground, and if we get some rain, the lake level will rise fast. But could the big lake remain iced-over until mid-May?
A coalition of lake associations wants to know if boaters are willing to accept a higher state boat registration fee as a way of increasing funds available for milfoil control.
The Department of Environmental Services has released a comprehensive report on its near-term and long-term recommendations to control invasive variable milfoil in the Ossipee Lake system. Non-native milfoil was discovered in Broad Bay in 1995, and the latest infestation was found in the big lake near the mouth of the Pine River in 2012. Click below to read or download the report.
Put your thinking cap on and try to guess when Ossipee Lake will be completely free of ice. Guess the correct day and time (to the closest half hour) and you could win a brand new rod and reel in this contest sponsored by the Ossipee Recreation Department and New England Rod and Reel.
The House voted 164-127 Wednesday to raise the boat registration fee after research showed a proposed boat decal program would probably not break even. The money raised by the registration fee increase would be dedicated to the lake restoration and prevention program that works to control exotic weeds like milfoil..
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