Should this be a cause for concern?

[fatlazyless]

(See Post #7 - Jonas Pilot's link to Concord Monitor) is written by a woman from New Hampton who is one of the volunteer water sample takers and it speaks all about the water testing of New Hampshire lakes and rivers and the DES testing of many public beaches and public swimming pools. While the article does not give a specific legislative bill, it does say how the combined volunteer and professional water test program will be terminated due to it's no longer being funded. Most likely, the recent cyanobacteria outbreak on the west side of Bear Island was examined, tested, and test results made public due directly to the NH-DES water testing program which would get cut or curtailed due to no money for water testing.

It's a very well written newspaper article, authored by someone who is a volunteer water sample taker, who is very familiar with the DES volunteer water testing program. It is very remarkable that the article says that the volunteers have to pay out of their own pocket, in some cases, for the water test lab at Plymouth State University to perform a test on their water sample which they bottled and labeled from one of many different NH lakes or rivers. A big round of applause here for the volunteer water sample takers.

It just figures that those no-good stinky NH Republicans would seriously be thinking about stopping this state wide, volunteer-professional partnership that tests the NH waters. Hopefully, the entire NH Republican leadership team will come down with a good strong case of diarrhea. They deserve it and they would do a very quick about-face on under-funding the state waters testing program!

[Jonas Pilot]

FLL, You had me 'til your last paragraph. I think you need to review the forum rules again.

[TiltonBB]

Last night I talked to the gentleman that, in previous years, has inspected boat plumbing to be certain that there are holding tanks and no waste is pumped overboard. He has had the part time job on Winnipesaukee for at least 15 years.

His understanding is that there are no funds for the position and he is not working for the state this year.

Maybe we are on the honor system?

[mg2107]

I think that the webmaster should take a look at fatlazyless's post.

[SAMIAM]

FLL sneaks in anti-GOP comments any time he thinks he can get away with it. I think there should be something like a 30 day banishment for people that do that.......unless others are allowed to reply.

[brk-lnt]

Originally Posted by SAMIAM

FLL sneaks in anti-GOP comments any time he thinks he can get away with it.I think there should be something like a 30 day banishment for people that do that.......unless others are allowed to reply.

That's why I have him on my ignore list.

[Seeker]

Me too! That list is great.

[SIKSUKR]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

It just figures that those no-good stinky NH Republicans would seriously be thinking about stopping this state wide, volunteer-professional partnership that tests the NH waters. Hopefully, the entire NH Republican leadership team will come down with a good strong case of diarrhea. They deserve it and they would do a very quick about-face on under-funding the state waters testing program!

Again, please point me to where the bill says anything about what your talking about. It seems the only diarhea around here is verbal.

[fatlazyless]

Originally Posted by SIKSUKR

Again, please point me to where the bill says anything about what your talking about. It seems the only diarhea around here is verbal.

The April 18, 2011 Concord Monitor article (see post #7) "The Health of state's lakes, rivers is at risk" by Jana Hays, a volunteer water sample taker from New Hampton is all about the under-funding and discontinuation of the volunteer-professional NH-DES program that takes water samples and performs water testing for various types of bacteria in NH waters all over the state. This program has been in place for an unknown (to me) number of years and was testing the water in NH's lakes, rivers, public swimming pools and public hot tubs such as at a hotel. Tests were routinely made for e-coli bacteria, cyano bacteria, and other water quality tests such as for phosphates that originate from runoff of fertilized grass lawns.

I'm not sure, but it very well could be that a legislative bill is not needed to under fund or discontinue the water tests as performed by the NH-DES. Possibly, all that's needed is a NO vote from the 5-member, currently all-republican Governor's Executive Council and that would stop the money pay-out needed to conduct the testing process?