Winnipesaukee phosphorous level?

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This week's Plymouth Record Enterprise, which is a 75-cent weekly newspaper that comes out every Thursday, has a lower front page article titled "New initiative could help preserve watershed."

It is mostly all about Newfound Lake but what caught my eye were two paragraphs in the middle of the article on Lake Winnipesaukee.

"As an example of how quickly a watershed can deteriorate under the right set of circumstances, Landry (Steve Landry, an environmentalist with the NH DES and member of the Every Acre Counts Team) pointed to Lake Winnipesaukee, where the phosphorous level has risen from 4.8 micrograms per liter to an alarming six micrograms per liter over the past ten years, leaving officials in communities like Meredith scrambling to halt the use of lawn fertilizers and pesticides that infiltrated the lake through runoff, triggering the rapid increase in phosphorous.

Certain parts of Lake Winnipesaukee, he said, are already lost, and are on the verge of being declared impaired by the DES."

That's all the article has to say about Lake Winnipesaukee, and the remainder is about Newfound Lake's water quality.
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I've noticed maybe two or three new town signs, about 36" x 36", with a very very large "P" for Phosphorous and some water quality commandments which have recently been posted on the Meredith town waterfront, close to the big intersection within Hesky and Clough waterfront parks, which are situated on both sides of the Inn at Bay Point.