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..
We have been experiencing real winter weather and snow. Looks like almost 2/3 of the snow cover has melted or turned to ice, and the temperature has been below zero many nights in the last ten days.
Students at Prospect Mountain School in Alton earn a $1,000 scholarship for their video about the threat milfoil poses to New Hampshire lakes.
A December flood is not an unusual occurrence, but so far the high water has been minimal, with the bays and Danforth Pond now iced-over.
Still great weather, but the autumn drawdown means winter is right around the corner.
New Ossipee Lake Alliance survey shows 21 milfoil-infested New Hampshire lakes, ponds, and rivers do not have an ongoing weed control program.
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