While the trees do move massive amounts of soil moisture into the atmosphere... they don't actually stop run off.
There existence protected the lake in the format of forcing building and other hardscape further back from the water's edge.
That meant that some ground level planting could filter and absorb the run off.
But I don't think the State is going to be able to change the course of what is happening even if it banned all new development within a 1000 feet of the water's edge. We still have a lot of tributaries that deliver nutrients from locations in the watershed that for many do not seem to be ''waterfront''.
Laconia taxpayers spent millions on bathhouses hooked to public sewer, hooking all there homes to public sewer, making as much of the lakefront around Opechee public to control development, and literally has very little boating and no sandbars to ''float'' at. Yet it still had a bloom.
It upsets the city residents and visitors when they see the beaches closed, but no risk of the loss of property value.
But they will also be called on by the State to spend millions more to further turn this issue around.
I can't imagine what some towns around the lake that has far more boating/sandbars, less beach bathhouses and homes attached to public sewer, and so much more lakefront being developed will be forced to spend to protect their lakefront property values.
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