Cyanobacteria Alert Issued for Blackey Cove (Moultonborough)

tis · 11-03-2023, 04:25 AM

I haven't seen anybody mention the geese. I never saw so much ---- in my life and their population is growing by leaps and bounds.

John Mercier · 11-03-2023, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by tis

I haven't seen anybody mention the geese. I never saw so much ---- in my life and their population is growing by leaps and bounds.

Lawns. They love the lawn at Middleton Meredith. And it is right in the flyway between the bay and Waukewan.

Luckily, run-off is captured in our holding pond toward the front.
You can see how well the vegetation grows there.

SAB1 · 11-03-2023, 05:38 PM

We can run around the block a hundred times and find a lot of culprits. I went to water quality meeting a couple years ago and was shocked to find there are still town drainage basins that dump into into the lake. Impervious barriers are a problem. Look at center harbor for example. Basically it’s uphill from the dock to the grocery store and everything is tar from the water up. So all the nutrients wash right over the tar to the lake. Anyone fertilizing up there is contributing. What they need is a ban on fertilizer within x miles of the lake. Shut it down. You get caught big time fines. That includes landscaping companies.

John Mercier · 11-03-2023, 05:55 PM

The problem you would be creating is X-miles from.
It would be easier just to ban chemical fertilizer. The State has banned other items for environmental reasons. No body really cares that MbTe is no longer causing a water quality issue... we didn't hear an outcry when it was removed.

Laundry detergents would be a bit harder from a purely political sense.

That would lower the additional loading, but the sequestration limits may have already been hit. So I am not sure how to handle stirring the bottom up releasing the nutrients back into the system could be resolved cost effectively.

11-03-2023, 04:25 AM	#1
tis Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,749 Thanks: 753 Thanked 1,459 Times in 1,016 Posts	I haven't seen anybody mention the geese. I never saw so much ---- in my life and their population is growing by leaps and bounds.

11-03-2023, 05:38 PM	#3
SAB1 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Tuftonboro Posts: 1,232 Thanks: 190 Thanked 323 Times in 236 Posts	We can run around the block a hundred times and find a lot of culprits. I went to water quality meeting a couple years ago and was shocked to find there are still town drainage basins that dump into into the lake. Impervious barriers are a problem. Look at center harbor for example. Basically it’s uphill from the dock to the grocery store and everything is tar from the water up. So all the nutrients wash right over the tar to the lake. Anyone fertilizing up there is contributing. What they need is a ban on fertilizer within x miles of the lake. Shut it down. You get caught big time fines. That includes landscaping companies.

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11-03-2023, 05:55 PM	#4
John Mercier Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2021 Posts: 3,426 Thanks: 3 Thanked 600 Times in 496 Posts	The problem you would be creating is X-miles from. It would be easier just to ban chemical fertilizer. The State has banned other items for environmental reasons. No body really cares that MbTe is no longer causing a water quality issue... we didn't hear an outcry when it was removed. Laundry detergents would be a bit harder from a purely political sense. That would lower the additional loading, but the sequestration limits may have already been hit. So I am not sure how to handle stirring the bottom up releasing the nutrients back into the system could be resolved cost effectively.