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Originally Posted by Tired of Waiting
The town turned the dam control over to the "Main Power Co." who has a generator on the dam. Or so I've been told. They don't know how to control the water level yet.
Once the marina's had to stop putting customer boats in due to low water they finally closed the gates down. They closed them so far that the Ossipee river was but a trickle from normal flow.
It took about two weeks to get the level up. About a week before you could navigate the No-Wake zones with motor down.
While I was there the "channel" at spindle point, and I mean "mid Channel" only had 1-1/2 feet of water. I had to run it with my engine up to the point that the prop was almost out of the water..
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The State of NH acquired the Dam from Central Maine Power in 1992, and the DES operates the Dam with assistance from the Ossipee Lake Authority.
There has been a lot of controversy about the height of the water at different times of the year.