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Originally Posted by Rattlesnake Gal
The topic of our lake having been nine separate bodies of water at one time was intriguing, but baffling...Geologists point out that the water level of this lake has remained about the same as today.
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These maps certainly put an end to the 9-separate-lakes theory.
Because the Lake was perfectly healthy "back then", here's the most striking part of your post that
I would have put in bold-font:
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"Several dozen small lakes and ponds drain into Winnipesaukee. It may never be known how such a large and wholesome lake can maintain itself from such a confined watershed."
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There are some tidbits in today's
Citizen that relate to how a wholesome lake can maintain itself from such a confined watershed:
http://www4.citizen.com/august_2004/...l_08.19_04.asp
Excerpts:
"At a meeting Tuesday evening an official from the Department of Environmental Services confirmed what had been suspected earlier: that untreated sewage is leaching into Lake Winnisquam in the area of swimming area of the state park.
"...there is no plan in the works to correct the problem. And what is worse, DES does not appear ready to press for a solution.
"The state should be embarrassed and angry that the beach at a state park is for all practical purposes unsafe for swimmers because of pollution coming from a state facility.
"Instead, the state is resorting to hand-wringing. The state clearly needs to step up to the plate here."
In another of today's
Citizen's apparently unrelated articles, I think I've found part of the problem:
"[Director of Safety Richard] Flynn, 76, has been safety commissioner for 32 years under eight governors. Most of those governors have relied on him not only as a skilled and hard-working administrator, but as an astute and discreet adviser on both politics and the inner workings of state government. Many people consider him the most powerful man in state government."
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Massachusetts residents can identify just such an individual in their own Commonwealth, who regularly overturns the voters' wishes).
A group of 25 lakefront owners (including myself) had hoped to meet with Safety Director Flynn a few years ago about establishing a No Wake Zone. (A cause that still makes this forum every year).
Flynn was a no-show; however, he did send a flack who stated up-front: "I've never been to this part of the lake".
Speakers -- all of them --
spoke in favor of a NWZ which, in its absense, had been washing their yards into the lake. It was denied anyway, probably because commmercial (read, fiberglass) pressure groups had caught the Director's attention.
I didn't speak up, as the NWZ was in different town than mine. (With respect to the other speakers, it would have been redundant).