As to the voting, the results are suspect. Only votes by New Hampshire residents should count, and
not those from New York and points west. It's
our lakes that are affected.
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Instead of passing some new state law in attempt to tame the very popular wake boats from making big wakes, you all should go get yourself a boat lift for elevating your boat up above those incoming wake waves. And, for $163.97 at Lowe's you can purchase 42-bags, a pallet, of 80-lb Quikrete high strength concrete mix packaged in a water permeable paper sack. Simply line your low lying, erosion prone shoreline with these 80-lb bags of concrete for a solid line of shoreline protection. Two days later, the concrete will be all solid within the paper soaking wet sack, totally set up under water, and the soggy wet paper bags are easily removed away by a steel putty knife, leaving a very natural looking gray, granite facsimile block of concrete that hugs the bottom, wherever it rests, permanently. Trust me, it works perfect, and looks totally NATURAL fantastic. You will be like totally pleased with these new permanent gray concrete Quikrete results. 11,000 years ago, the last glacier of the ice age pushed through this here lakes region, leaving behind many, many gray granite big rocks and small boulders. With the 80-bag of Quikrete high strength concrete mix you can replicate a do-it-yourself glacier and protect your eroding shoreline from these wake boat wakes. Be your own glacier! It looks amazingly excellent, and the price is $163.97, a 20% discount pallet price, for 42 eighty-lb bags ........ what a deal! Plus, it will give you something to work on, all summer long, getting them positioned just right.
....... protect your shoreline ...... build a revetment using bags of Quikrete! ...   |
DES is likely to frown on this "solution"—due to
leaching.
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Water that comes into contact with unset concrete or concrete dust quickly increases in alkalinity and will be highly toxic to aquatic life. Concrete wastewater has a pH of 12 -13 and is as toxic as oven cleaner or bleach. The pH of freshwater is 6-7.
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gal in Kenya devised a process to make a large brick that is made of local sand and then bonded together with recycled plastic.
Said to be "stronger than concrete", it's possible to cure two problems with one solution.
But what I've seen, is that the lake water—often driven by two or more converging wakes—surges up and behind the boulders, picking-off larger and larger grains of rocky debris. The boulders slide down, letting more soil approach the water.
That soil then becomes the latest particles to slide down, and a replacement boulder falls again. That's why water
clarity suffers on weekends.
(And clarity affects water temperature).
While it
looks like boulders are holding the soil back, in reality, the lake's water level is quite high
behind the "apparent" waterline.
In sailboats, there's a term called "apparent wind", and is shown by a ribbon placed to show it. But that ribbon isn't showing the actual direction of the wind!
Limiting wakeboats to the Broads isn't the answer, either.
This shoreline faces Rattlesnake Island: