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Originally Posted by LIforrelaxin
"...was the idea behind buying the additional land simply to give the town more area to "spray" the afflunent snow...?"
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That was the idea, but Wolfeboro copied "effluent-spraying" from a town in Maine that got a generous supply of cold weather!
"Warm weather" caused Wolfeboro to exceed its holding pond's capacity. Overflow has been leaking through wetlands into Wolfeboro's Back Bay for years, producing a generous crop of exotic milfoil. (Milfoil that also "needs treatment"). Others have advised that the pond has an excessively large load of rain- and ground-water pumped from residents' cellars into the sewer system.
Wolfeboro's
other plans call for pumping Lake Winnipesaukee water and "treating" it for a Town water supply.
Its former water supply is a remote natural pond which has been drawn down so far, that it can't be further "treated" without posing a health risk! Wolfeboro water customers received a letter last year that essentially said, "Don't Drink Town Water Due to the Carcinogens the Town Added."
I see an endless cycle of "treatments".
The only good part is that the eventual "treated" discharge is to one part of the lake—and the intake at another site, some six
lake miles distant. ("As the fish swims".)
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Originally Posted by LIforrelaxin
"...The way I interpret the article the idea behind the land purchase was to give the town the additional area to expand the capacity of the facility incorporating proper leaching, much like they are planing to do buy pumping affluent to the proposed field near the Tuftonboro Town line...."
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There were at least three proposals: one was to "take" the land for additional spraying—rejected by the voters.
The "new" approach is to force-inject treated effluent into the ground next to the Tuftonboro line. (Which is geographically close to where the "effluent spraying" sorta took place.)
The "oldest" idea—offered with incentives by the state—was rejected out-of-hand by the Board of Selectman saying, "Townsfolk would never approve of an underwater pipeline to Franklin [for treatment]".
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I don't remember being asked.
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Backpackers and rafters to the Colorado River are told to toss their "effluent" into the Colorado River, saying
"The Solution to Pollution is Dilution".
'All well and good in a strong river having rapids that treat "effluent" with naturally-occurring aerobic bacteria. (And thence carried to the ocean).
New Hampshire is New England's fastest growing-state, and Wolfeboro is in the middle of the state's fastest growth. The solution for Winnipesaukee Basin effluent isn't lots of small ideas.
IMHO.
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