The results of a May meeting will signal whether DRED can keep its coalition of state and local stakeholders working together as state funds dwindle and trespassing and vandalism increase at Ossipee Lake Natural Area.
Select Board says it found out about the work schedule second-hand and is concerned boaters will be inconvenienced at a busy tine of year.
Signs of spring: black flies. Signs of summer: the lake level has stabilized.
In contrast, last year the dam was closed on May 8th.
Ossipee's simmering feud over a proposed land planning study shows no sign of abating. Selectman Rick Morgan has called for a meeting to determine whether the town's Conservation Commission has the legal right to find a new source of funding for the study. Citing a similar study in Freedom, Morgan says "ultimately it [was] all about the concern over phosphorous levels in Lake Ossipee," adding that since Ossipee is in the hills and "all its run-off ends up in the lake," the same kind of study in Ossipee could result in "detrimental restrictions" on land use. Citing the importance of water quality in the lake, Conservation Commission chair Ron Adams reminds Morgan that "Fifty-two percent of the town's taxes are raised from lakeshore properties."
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