McMansions have always puzzled me -- more so, now it appears nobody actually lives in them. Why despoil such a beautiful lake formerly ringed with great pine groves, mossy banks, and granite boulders, and "Suburbanize it" with over-sized non-traditional houses and lawns?
The only reason I can figure such large McMansions exist is for the day when they can convert to commercial use -- such as B&Bs (Bed & Breakfasts) -- and put-up four or five families at once...winter and summer.
Even beautiful Switzerland is falling to this trend around its lakes. Long-time residents complain that their lake-country areas are becoming one giant Suburbia.
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Originally Posted by jrc
Assuming they follow the tree cutting and fertilizer rules, it sound like a reasonable trade-off.
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Following the tree-cutting rules?"
"Paying the fines" for removing the trees from state-protected shore lines is
hardly "Following the Rules".
A friend who's been here even longer than I went for a swim at his place after a two week absence. He asked me if I noticed the algae increase in the water. I said I'd just drawn lakewater and noticed it was much darker than even last month.
His response? "It's like swimming in vegetable soup".
Sure, New Hampshire has naïve but modest laws; but remember, it enforces them with great ineptness.
(Try filing an environmental complaint).
Edited. This article appeared in Internet news this morning:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996229
"Cyanobacteria [blue-green-algae] are common in freshwaters and seas worldwide, and thrive in polluted, nutrient-rich waters. “Their influence is expanding as we nutrify the environment,” he says."
While blue-green algae isn't yet a Lake Winnipesaukee problem, it has made the news in several NH lakes, killing pets and livestock -- and causing Jet-Skiers to pass out in other lakes.
(Maybe Concord will notice that their nearby
Webster Lake has been blue-green-algae invaded just last year?)