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Originally Posted by Bear Islander
If you read the RSA carefully you will see it only applies if the neighbor is unable to access the ice.
Causing open water in one part of your property is not a violation if you can access the ice from another part.
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Not picking on Bear Islander, this is a common misstatement... The open water one creates is not part of their property. It is public water over which there are rights of public passage.
Please consider that the issue here is not whether or not there is open water but rather whether the device impedes the "natural freezing of water, or forming of ice." This includes creating areas of thin ice around the open water that may extend quite a distance in a particular direction depending on the angle at which the device is installed and the way the current it creates deflects off structures and objects in the water around it. Legal requirements aside, if you need to use an aquatherm, please be thoughtful about the way it is operated so it does not pose unnecessary risks to those out working or playing on the lakes in the winter months.