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Originally Posted by chachee52
I think that it's funny how everyone is blaming the water management.
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DES is the easy target, and people need someone to target for their misfortune.
At the end of the day, mother nature is unpredictable. There is a protocol in place for controlling the lake level, it gets followed within reason every year. Many times it works out just fine, but you have exceptions. After 40 years going to the lake, the exceptions are a small percentage of those years.
The problem really comes down to how well you are prepared and equiped to handle the exceptions. As dock structures have become more permanent and less adjustable it isn't easy to re-adjust when water levels go outside the norm. This is why I favor removable docks. and why I have always kept an extra dock section, so when the water is low, I can go out another few feet. When the water is high well that is a little harder to deal with.... However with the right set up you can always raise your dock.
Many lakes have a much wider operating band and people have to no choice but to move away from fixed docks.... that is the issue that plagues Winnipesaukee, because its operating band is controlled so narrowly, everyone avoids the additional cost of a more adjustable docking solution.