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Originally Posted by Dave M
Always wondered why the Alton Bay gazebo doesn't get crushed. Does it have pumps etc. around it. I'm assuming its built on a crib. Could somebody supply
info.
Thanks Dave M
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It is Divine Intervention. The Alton Bay Christian Conference Center overlooks and protects the bandstand in the bay.
To somewhat answer your question, it is built upon a crib, and there are not pumps, no circulators. The structure itself usually is clear of the water, except at the highest of lake levels. In the winter, with safe ice, you can actually walk out to the bandstand, and during the winter carnival on the ice, it is usually where the people who are doing the music set up their electronics.
There is current from the Merrymeeting flowing into the bay, and the ice normally recedes beyond Sandy Point before you get big floes moving around. Other than that, I would be at a loss to explain why no damage, at least none since I moved here in 1996.
Of course it
could be Divine Intervention....
