Blowing leaves in the lake

[ApS]

Originally Posted by tis

OMG, I was just kidding!!! I rake leaves out of the lake ALL summer! But I honestly can't blame the landscapers right here for it. They are pretty good.

Your leaves may be floating in from my neighbors' landscapers.

I don't mind that landscapers use my lot to deposit their leaves, since 50 feet on each side is devoted to large stands of "privacy" trees.

I have photographs of leaves being blown into the lake, but at that moment, only a handful are in the air. It's the long trail of leaves floating by that shows landscapers' negative effects to the lake. It's especially bothersome to be treated to gas-powered blowers playing "dueling leafblowers"--paid by absent homeowners.

[iw8surf]

They should ban leaf blowers! Damn people ruining the shore fronts and causing so much noise with their loud leaf machines!


Those absentee homeowners you apparently hate pay taxes just like you.

[YOLO]

Originally Posted by iw8surf

They should ban leaf blowers! Damn people ruining the shore fronts and causing so much noise with their loud leaf machines!


Those absentee homeowners you apparently hate pay taxes just like you.

NO! Do not Mass up NH. Leaf blowers are just as loud as a lawnmower and many boats. Irresponsible people will rake leaves into the lake just as easily of not more so to save the labor.

[Beardude]

Ok. This forum has established that blowing leaves and debris into the lake is illegal. Now what? How do you educate the public? I'm on an island and have photos of masses of leaves blown into the lake. I'll reach out to the offending homeowners (I don't know them) , perhaps they have no idea what their landscaper does. Filing complaints is for last resorts, IMO. I'm sure it happens quite often around the lake, unfortunately. A quick search found that the state of Missouri has a $10,000 fine for dumping into a lake. The only mention locally was NHLakes, which suggests avoiding such activity.

[Descant]

"I'm on an island" and neighbors blow stuff into the lake sounds like a bridged island. There aren't many unbridged islands where camps have lawns or landscapers with leaf blowers. I know of only one place on Welch (one of the larger unabridged islands) where they use leaf blowers and always blow back intop the woods. Cow? Rattlesnake?

[Beardude]

Originally Posted by Descant

"I'm on an island" and neighbors blow stuff into the lake sounds like a bridged island. There aren't many unbridged islands where camps have lawns or landscapers with leaf blowers. I know of only one place on Welch (one of the larger unabridged islands) where they use leaf blowers and always blow back intop the woods. Cow? Rattlesnake?

I'm really asking if there are any known lake stewardship guidelines that can be shared to educate rather than pinpoint the origin of my complaint.

[Descant]

Originally Posted by Beardude

I'm really asking if there are any known lake stewardship guidelines that can be shared to educate rather than pinpoint the origin of my complaint.

I think post #4 in this thread answers that.

[steve-on-mark]

Originally Posted by Descant

"I'm on an island" and neighbors blow stuff into the lake sounds like a bridged island. There aren't many unbridged islands where camps have lawns or landscapers with leaf blowers. I know of only one place on Welch (one of the larger unabridged islands) where they use leaf blowers and always blow back intop the woods. Cow? Rattlesnake?

We do have a lawn, separated from the lake by a perched beach and mulch buffer, and when I rake or blow leaves it's always back into the woods!

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