Littering on Lake Winipesaukee....

Skip · 10-06-2008, 05:22 AM

It certainly doesn't pay to throw your empty beer cans into the Lake.

HERE are 900 reasons why you don't want to get caught littering, courtesy of the on-line edition of this morning's Citizen!

Island Life · 10-06-2008, 05:58 AM

The trouble is catching them. We've had boaters, who anchor off the island, pitch their bag of trash onto the island before speeding off.

Webbsatwinni · 10-06-2008, 08:15 AM

We regularly fill a bag up with the trash that we collect off of the shore and lake bottom just in front of our place. We originally thought this was left by the previous owners, but once we cleaned it, there was more.

Some interesting stuff too, and too many drive skegs to count.

upthesaukee · 10-06-2008, 08:57 AM

Years ago, when I did scuba diving, there were places we would dive that were meccas for ice fishing in the winter, and in the summer, the bottom was littered with beer/soda cans/bottles, sometimes so many that it formed a small pyramid-type mound ( a few not so small.).

Unfortunately, the back packers motto of pack it in, pack it out doesn't seem to apply to some of our lake and stream users.

Nice to see those who get caught get a hefty fine.

Phantom · 10-06-2008, 11:15 AM

unfortunately the FEW, wreck it for the MAJORITY !!

Any "reasonable" boater packs their snacks, lunch & drinks (whatever) and repacks the empties & trash for the return trip home.

KonaChick · 10-06-2008, 11:33 AM

This is a timely discussion because this summer I was thinking how clean the lake was and how proud I was of lakeside residents and day trippers for being so responsible...I guess others noticed differently!

Audiofn · 10-06-2008, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by KonaChick

This is a timely discussion because this summer I was thinking how clean the lake was and how proud I was of lakeside residents and day trippers for being so responsible...I guess others noticed differently!

Not on Lake Winni., but I had to spend about a half hour with my son picking up some Wendies bags, napkins, frie boxes and lots of other trash this weekend. It had been better this summer until last week.

Taz · 10-06-2008, 06:45 PM

The writer of the article made a mistake. It is not illegal to boat and drink alcohol. You can drink alcohol on a boat and drive as long as you are no over the blood alcohol legal limit.

NightWing · 10-06-2008, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Taz

The writer of the article made a mistake. It is not illegal to boat and drink alcohol. You can drink alcohol on a boat and drive as long as you are no over the blood alcohol legal limit.

Not quite. As long as you are not impaired to any degree.

secondcurve · 10-06-2008, 08:00 PM

I can't tell you how annoying it is for me to see folks toss their cigarettes off boats, out car windows, etc. If I were the King, I'd sentence anyone caught doing this to 80 hours of picking up trash on our roads and/or in our waterways. Eventually with enough punishment handed out the practice would be greatly reduced. A public canning for anyone caught twice would also be allowed in my kingdom.

Seeker · 10-06-2008, 09:42 PM

I think we should just pick them up and throw them back in their car still lit.

VitaBene · 10-07-2008, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Skip

It certainly doesn't pay to throw your empty beer cans into the Lake.

HERE are 900 reasons why you don't want to get caught littering, courtesy of the on-line edition of this morning's Citizen!

That is awesome- I only wish they would enforce the cigarette law more often (as a rider it is bad enough getting a bee off the noggin, I hate seeing one of those lit missiles coming my way)

chipj29 · 10-07-2008, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by VitaBene

That is awesome- I only wish they would enforce the cigarette law more often (as a rider it is bad enough getting a bee off the noggin, I hate seeing one of those lit missiles coming my way)

I fully agree. I was on my motorcycle one day, and some jackhole in front of me tossed a lit cigarette butt out his window. It hit the ground and bounced up, spinning in the air, then hit me in the chest. It fell down my front, and went up my shorts. T'was not a very pleasant experience. If I didn't have to stop to put out the fire in my pants, I would have tried to catch up to the guy and give him his "trash" back.

VitaBene · 10-07-2008, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by chipj29

I fully agree. I was on my motorcycle one day, and some jackhole in front of me tossed a lit cigarette butt out his window. It hit the ground and bounced up, spinning in the air, then hit me in the chest. It fell down my front, and went up my shorts. T'was not a very pleasant experience. If I didn't have to stop to put out the fire in my pants, I would have tried to catch up to the guy and give him his "trash" back.

Yes, jackhole is a good term for them- I redeposited a load of MacD's trash into a car full of kids one night- they were not very happy about it!

gravy boat · 10-07-2008, 05:23 PM

...that even business owners (V. Miner of GMI Paving) was named in that article and busted for littering. Sends a good sign that everyone will be fined if caught littering.

I can't tell you how many beer cans, plastic shopping bags, styrofoam cups and other crapola we retrieve from the lake every year. I REALLY like the poster who "redeposited" the McD's debris back to the car from which it originated.

GB

Rattlesnake Gal · 10-14-2008, 09:51 AM

This summer after my post asking How Much Damage Can A Wine Bottle Cause?, I was snorkeling around our dock and became very upset when I spotted a green wine bottle tucked in at the end, wedged at the base of a large, deep rock. Like you, littering makes me very cranky. I swam down to retrieve it and realized right away that this was not a recent wine bottle. It is a very heavy odd sized green bottle with a deep divot in the bottom and a sturdy ridge at the neck. I wonder how could it have escaped our notice all these years? R-Guy thinks it might be an old champagne bottle. There are no seams or the little ridges on the base that today’s bottles have. This weekend I will take a picture. Maybe someone here can tell me more about my old lake litter.

Phantom · 10-14-2008, 11:39 AM

Is the cork still in it ???

Just kidding

SOB · 10-14-2008, 04:18 PM

When I am on the lake or up in NH (from RI) I won't even drop the smallest wrapper on the ground. On the lake forget it, I routinely would grab floating cans and whatever when I had my jetski on the lake for the past 7 yrs. Its tough to do now with the pontoon boat.

I cant understand how you can look around you and then toss garbage into that lake! People amaze me.

I have a box of 100 garbage bags stored on board, fill it as you create waste and toss it in any dumpster at the end of the day. If you belong to a marina then you most likely have a dumpster to use.

Some people are just too lazy, but how can you justify it in your head as you do it?!

Misty Blue · 10-14-2008, 09:54 PM

With the amount of day tripping in the head of Braun Bay I am always suprised at how little trash we have found in the water. Usually, if any is found it is six empty buds in one spot which shows only one fellon.

I also hunt the woods in Kona and there is very little, as you say, crapolla to be found on the shore.

It appears that the boaters are self enforcing the rules and I say good for them.

Misty Blue.

ApS · 12-15-2008, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by gravy boat

...I can't tell you how many beer cans, plastic shopping bags, styrofoam cups and other crapola we retrieve from the lake every year..."

'Seems like you "otter" get some help with those.

10-06-2008, 05:22 AM	#1
Skip Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Dover, NH Posts: 1,615 Thanks: 256 Thanked 514 Times in 182 Posts	Littering on Lake Winipesaukee.... It certainly doesn't pay to throw your empty beer cans into the Lake. HERE are 900 reasons why you don't want to get caught littering, courtesy of the on-line edition of this morning's Citizen!

10-06-2008, 05:58 AM	#2
Island Life Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 273 Thanks: 12 Thanked 6 Times in 2 Posts	The trouble is catching them. We've had boaters, who anchor off the island, pitch their bag of trash onto the island before speeding off. __________________ Island Life the way my grandparents' grandparents enjoyed it - but with a faster boat!!!

10-06-2008, 08:57 AM	#4
upthesaukee Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alton Bay Posts: 5,547 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 2,398 Thanked 1,918 Times in 1,061 Posts	Not just boaters Years ago, when I did scuba diving, there were places we would dive that were meccas for ice fishing in the winter, and in the summer, the bottom was littered with beer/soda cans/bottles, sometimes so many that it formed a small pyramid-type mound ( a few not so small.). Unfortunately, the back packers motto of pack it in, pack it out doesn't seem to apply to some of our lake and stream users. Nice to see those who get caught get a hefty fine. __________________ I Live Here... I am always UPTHESAUKEE !!!!

10-06-2008, 11:15 AM	#5
Phantom Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Berlin, Ma / Gilford Posts: 1,931 Thanks: 445 Thanked 604 Times in 340 Posts	unfortunately the FEW, wreck it for the MAJORITY !! Any "reasonable" boater packs their snacks, lunch & drinks (whatever) and repacks the empties & trash for the return trip home. __________________ *A bad day on the Big Lake (although I've never had one) - Still beats a day at the office!!*

10-07-2008, 05:23 PM	#15
gravy boat Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Gilford year round, West Alton summers Posts: 582 Thanks: 580 Thanked 194 Times in 99 Posts	Good to see... ...that even business owners (V. Miner of GMI Paving) was named in that article and busted for littering. Sends a good sign that everyone will be fined if caught littering. I can't tell you how many beer cans, plastic shopping bags, styrofoam cups and other crapola we retrieve from the lake every year. I REALLY like the poster who "redeposited" the McD's debris back to the car from which it originated. GB

10-06-2008, 08:15 AM	#3
Webbsatwinni Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Lebanon Ct and Rattlesnake Island Since 2007 Posts: 610 Thanks: 180 Thanked 137 Times in 72 Posts	We regularly fill a bag up with the trash that we collect off of the shore and lake bottom just in front of our place. We originally thought this was left by the previous owners, but once we cleaned it, there was more. Some interesting stuff too, and too many drive skegs to count.

10-06-2008, 11:33 AM	#6
KonaChick Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 518 Thanks: 19 Thanked 62 Times in 15 Posts	This is a timely discussion because this summer I was thinking how clean the lake was and how proud I was of lakeside residents and day trippers for being so responsible...I guess others noticed differently!

10-06-2008, 06:45 PM	#8
Taz Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 345 Thanks: 3 Thanked 68 Times in 46 Posts	The writer of the article made a mistake. It is not illegal to boat and drink alcohol. You can drink alcohol on a boat and drive as long as you are no over the blood alcohol legal limit.

10-06-2008, 08:00 PM	#10
secondcurve Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,084 Thanks: 1,267 Thanked 557 Times in 286 Posts	I can't tell you how annoying it is for me to see folks toss their cigarettes off boats, out car windows, etc. If I were the King, I'd sentence anyone caught doing this to 80 hours of picking up trash on our roads and/or in our waterways. Eventually with enough punishment handed out the practice would be greatly reduced. A public canning for anyone caught twice would also be allowed in my kingdom.

10-06-2008, 09:42 PM	#11
Seeker Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Effingham Posts: 408 Thanks: 37 Thanked 19 Times in 15 Posts	I think we should just pick them up and throw them back in their car still lit.

10-14-2008, 09:51 AM	#16
Rattlesnake Gal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Central NH Posts: 5,252 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 1,447 Thanked 1,349 Times in 475 Posts	Old Litter Can Be Interesting This summer after my post asking How Much Damage Can A Wine Bottle Cause?, I was snorkeling around our dock and became very upset when I spotted a green wine bottle tucked in at the end, wedged at the base of a large, deep rock. Like you, littering makes me very cranky. I swam down to retrieve it and realized right away that this was not a recent wine bottle. It is a very heavy odd sized green bottle with a deep divot in the bottom and a sturdy ridge at the neck. I wonder how could it have escaped our notice all these years? R-Guy thinks it might be an old champagne bottle. There are no seams or the little ridges on the base that today’s bottles have. This weekend I will take a picture. Maybe someone here can tell me more about my old lake litter.

10-14-2008, 11:39 AM	#17
Phantom Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Berlin, Ma / Gilford Posts: 1,931 Thanks: 445 Thanked 604 Times in 340 Posts	Is the cork still in it ??? Just kidding __________________ *A bad day on the Big Lake (although I've never had one) - Still beats a day at the office!!*

10-14-2008, 04:18 PM	#18
SOB Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Pawtucket, RI Posts: 31 Thanks: 3 Thanked 12 Times in 3 Posts	Don't understand it.. When I am on the lake or up in NH (from RI) I won't even drop the smallest wrapper on the ground. On the lake forget it, I routinely would grab floating cans and whatever when I had my jetski on the lake for the past 7 yrs. Its tough to do now with the pontoon boat. I cant understand how you can look around you and then toss garbage into that lake! People amaze me. I have a box of 100 garbage bags stored on board, fill it as you create waste and toss it in any dumpster at the end of the day. If you belong to a marina then you most likely have a dumpster to use. Some people are just too lazy, but how can you justify it in your head as you do it?!

10-14-2008, 09:54 PM	#19
Misty Blue Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 658 Thanks: 121 Thanked 283 Times in 98 Posts	Braun Bay trash. With the amount of day tripping in the head of Braun Bay I am always suprised at how little trash we have found in the water. Usually, if any is found it is six empty buds in one spot which shows only one fellon. I also hunt the woods in Kona and there is very little, as you say, crapolla to be found on the shore. It appears that the boaters are self enforcing the rules and I say good for them. Misty Blue.