7-acre Corcoran's Pond in beautiful Waterville Valley has had two yellow NH-DES signs that say "Unsafe for Wading or Swimming" for the last two weeks, since June 15.
This pond has almost zero Canada geese in it, maybe just 2-4 geese, but usually it has no geese. Last night it had a great blue heron positioned on a big rock that was carefully eyeing the water.
http://www.arrivalguides.com/en/Trav...ran-pond-43541 ...... the photo with the road and bridge is a good photo but the photo with the pedal boat is on some other pond, somewhere, not Corcoran's Pond.
On Friday, June 23 at 9:15-pm there was 45-50 Mallard ducks on the sandy town beach that flew in from somewhere that was running back and forth in and out of the water trying to catch and eat something.
The town has reinstalled the winter ice eater which makes splish-splash at the dam in an effort to eliminate the fecal bacteria. What it really needs is 100-lbs of powdered chlorine to eliminate the fecal bacteria.
June 30, 2023: The NH DES fecal bacteria advisory ......
http://www.watervillevalleynh.gov/ho...beach-advisory ..... for Corcoran's Pond town beach remains in place, resampled on June 28, with next sampling on July 6, and new results on July 7.