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LAKESIDE
A QUA RT E R LY PUBL ICATION OF NH LAKES – Volume X X IX , No . 4, Wi nter 2 0 2 0
Advocate for Clean and Healthy Lakes in 2020
by Kelly Buchanan, Advocacy Program Coordinator, NH LAKES
Happy New Year! This new year marks project is proposed within 250 feet of Call your legislator. Prepare to call a
the perfect time to get involved in the a lake. Well-distributed, natural state legislator by writing down some
lawmaking process at the New vegetation on a shorefront property notes on your main points and what
Hampshire State House, especially helps minimize and clean up polluted you will ask them to do. If you’re calling
when it means ensuring clean and runoff water by capturing it before it a state representative, keep in mind
healthy lakes. The stakes are high for flows into the lake. This bill will help you may be calling their cell phone or
the 2020 legislative session as NH keep our lakes clean and healthy, but home phone—call at considerate times
LAKES is taking the lead to strengthen we know that in order for it to pass, and don’t be caught off guard if a
New Hampshire’s Shoreland Water our legislators will need to hear from family member picks up. On the other
Quality Protection Act—we’re counting you. We also know that New hand, state senators have offices and
on you to advocate with us! Hampshire legislators love hearing staff—expect a staff person to field
from their constituents—whether you your call. In this case, briefly describe
We initiated a bill this session are a registered voter, property owner, your reason for calling and ask to speak
designed to reduce polluted runoff or visitor in the Granite State, your with the senator.
water in the protected shoreland area voice truly matters and needs to be
by increasing the standard for the heard. Testify or sign in on a bill. Showing
amount of natural vegetation left intact up at the State House may seem
on a property where a development Taking simple advocacy actions is scary, but we think you’ll find it is
something we all can and must do to home to an inviting and warm
ensure clean and healthy lakes—here’s community of advocates. If you’re
how: willing to go the extra mile and
advocate alongside us at the State
Email or write your legislator. A House, I would be pleased to coach
simple email or a handwritten letter is you beforehand on talking points,
a fantastic way to start a conversation expectations of decorum, and the
with a legislator to bring an important logistics associated with public
issue to their attention. Include your hearings. Reach out to me anytime at
name, where you’re from, and your kbuchanan@nhlakes.org.
connection to that legislator (if you’re
a constituent, property owner, or We need your support! Stay informed
visitor in their district, etc.). Always be on our progress and respond to our
polite and considerate and use data or calls to action by signing up for our
anecdotes to support your points. Advocacy Alert e-newsletter at
And, be sure to ask for something nhlakes.org. We’ll need you to be
specific. You can ask a legislator to ready to call, email, and write your
support or oppose a specific bill, to legislators, and testify at hearings in
consider writing legislation on a support or opposition to certain bills
particular topic, or to help you or your when the time comes. We can’t do
community solve a problem through this important work without you.
New Hampshire State House in winter. their actions at the state level.
(Photo Credit: K. Buchanan)
Work ing for clean and healthy lakes
Lakeside / Winter 2020 NH LAKES
Lakeside
published quarterly by From the President…
NH LAKES
17 Chenell Drive, Suite One NH LAKES purchased a mobile unit to
Concord, NH 03301 demonstrate it at boat launches
603.226.0299 throughout the state. This is one of the
nhlakes.org info@nhlakes.org ways we are enhancing clean, drain, and
dry opportunities for boaters to prevent
Officers
the spread of invasive species. But, I
Stuart Lord (Silver Lake)
Chair assume you know this, so here’s the real
John Edie (Meredith) story I wanted to tell you about the CD3
Vice Chair unit and on-ice activities…
Bruce Freeman (Strafford)
Treasurer As It turns out, the trailer our CD3 unit is
John-Michael (JM) Girald (Rye) mounted on is designed for use with
Secretary
Kim Godfrey (Holderness) Tom O’Brien, NH LAKES President, with bob houses—you know, those little
At-Large June Fichter, Lake Sunapee Protective shanties ice anglers use to keep warm
Association Executive Director, with the and dry while trying to catch the big
Board of Directors NH LAKES CD3 unit. one?! I introduced our CD3 unit to our
Susan R. Goodwin (Wolfeboro) mechanic last summer to discuss some
Shirley Green (Enfield) How are you? If you are in the northern modifications we were considering. I had
Andre A. Hunter (Newbury) latitudes, I hope shorter days and winter
Chris Hussey (Windham)
also been puzzling over the elaborate
weather hasn’t got you down. I also design of the trailer and our mechanic,
Jim Lovell (Ossipee)
Bradford W. Melson (Gilford) hope that, if you are able, you get Dan Weed, said, “That’s how they raise
Roger F. Murray, III (Wolfeboro) outside year-round, and maybe even out and lower bob houses out around the
Robert W. Reed (Chichester) to the lake this winter! If you haven’t Great Lakes.” A-ha! The most practical
Robert W. Shaw, Jr. (Moultonborough) taken in any of the on-ice events in New and cost-effective approach for the CD3
Robert N. Snelling (Holderness) Hampshire, you are missing a real treat.
Elaine Warshell (Moultonborough) manufacturer was to use a trailer
My personal favorite (because it is in my designed for bob houses. If you haven’t
Honorary Directors ‘backyard’) is the Black Ice Pond Hockey seen the CD3 unit yet, you’ll get the
Joseph Farrelly (Concord) tournament at White Park in Concord. connection when you do, as it is
Anne Lovett (Holderness) We are, of course, concerned with clean designed to be lowered and leveled onto
Sidney Lovett (Holderness) water and what people leave on the ice. an uneven surface. Although we don’t
So, our message is, make sure the ice is intend to use the CD3 unit in winter
Staff
safe by testing the thickness as you go, (there is no wood stove, for one thing),
Tom O’Brien
President play safe while you are out there, and we do plan to bring it this coming
Andrea LaMoreaux keep it clean! (puck drop…) summer to a boat ramp near you. Be on
Vice President the lookout for us as we tow, lower,
Martha Lovejoy Speaking of on-ice activities—what do
level, and demonstrate our CD3 mobile,
Director of Finance and Development you think about our mobile, solar-
Kelly Buchanan solar-powered, waterless watercraft
powered, waterless watercraft cleaning
Advocacy Program Coordinator cleaning station in 2020!
Krystal Costa Balanoff
station, affectionately known as the CD3
Conservation Program Coordinator unit? How does a mobile watercraft On behalf of NH LAKES,
Erin Graichen cleaning station relate to on-ice Tom O’Brien, President
Membership Program Coordinator activities? The CD3 unit is a piece of
Erin Mastine equipment designed for use by boaters
Outreach Program Coordinator
to clean, drain, dry, and dispose of plant Leave a Legacy
Lakeside Printing and animal materials from their boat, Please remember NH LAKES in your
Speedy Printing trailer, and gear. These units, built in will. To do this, simply share this
Concord, NH Minnesota, are primarily designed to be sentence with your attorney or
installed at a single boat launch facility. financial planner:
Lakeside Layout
Tracey George, Speedy Printing
Concord, NH
I bequeath $___ or ___% of my
estate to: New Hampshire Lakes
Association, Inc., 17 Chenell Drive,
Suite One, Concord, NH 03301.
Our tax identification number is
22-2668396. If you have chosen to
NH LAKES operations are funded in part
include NH LAKES in your estate
by a grant from the New Hampshire
Charitable Foundation.
plans, please let us know. Thank you!
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The Legislative Advocacy Survey
Results are In!
A record-breaking total of 523 individuals participated in our annual legislative advocacy survey. If you took this
important opportunity to voice your opinion about our advocacy work, thank you for your time and thoughtfulness. Your
responses to the legislative advocacy survey help to inform our work at the State House and enable us to share your
opinions with our state legislators.
The results revealed most NH LAKES members* In the Shoreland Water Quality Protection Act, would you support an
that took the survey support our 2020 legislative increase in the natural woodland buffer standard from 25% to 50%?
priority to strengthen the natural woodland
buffer standards in the Shoreland Water Quality
Protection Act. Increasing the amount of natural 20%
woodland buffer (intact native vegetation
between 50 feet and 150 feet of the high water
line) will help prevent polluted runoff water from
entering lakes, ponds, and rivers. 16%
64%
To stay updated on our legislative work in 2020,
sign up for our periodic e-newsletter, Advocacy
Alert, at nhlakes.org. This spring, we’ll report on
the results of our municipal advocacy survey in
Lakeside. No Undecided Yes
*Out of 523 respondents, 212 respondents indicated they were members of NH LAKES at the time of completing the
survey. The results described pertain only to these 212 respondents.
In Memoriam
David L. Eastman passed on
November 18, 2019. David served
as secretary of NH LAKES for eight
years during the organization’s
formative and early days.
“David was keenly interested in the
natural world and in nature’s way of
providing clean water,” explained
Tom O’Brien, NH LAKES President.
“He once described to me a study he
had done about how raindrops
falling through the leaves of a forest
canopy have relatively minimal
impacts on the ground, thereby
minimizing soil erosion and runoff
water. Hearing him explain this, I
remember thinking to myself,
someone paying that much attention
to the natural world is paying
attention, indeed.” Photo Credit: R. Reed
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LAKE HOST PROGRAM
2002 - 2019
Summary & Accomplishments
COURTESY BOAT INSPECTIONS INVASIVE SPECIES
100,000
100,000
REMOVED
1,030,125
1,612 inspection
'saves' at 55
conducted!
waterbodies over 18 years
75,000
75,000
Inspections
811
50,000
50,000 Fanwort
ns
ctio
i n spe
320 e!
25, atewid
25,000
25,000 1,1 st
0
0
Variable Milfoil 642
'02
'02 '04
'04 '06
'06 '08
'08 '10
'10 '12
'12 '14
'14 '16
'16 '18
'18 '20
Year
PARTICIPATION
Eurasian Milfoil 93
Boat Ramps Covered
2002 45 European Naiad 19
2019 104
Lake Host Inspectors
Curly Leaf
Pondweed
15
2002 161 15
2019 608 Water Chestnut 16
PROGRAM FUNDING OVERALL (2002 - 2019) Chinese Mystery
14
state
Snail
%
30.3
Federal Funds State Grants
$3.3 Million
H
7.5 l
era
&N
%
fed
tion
$831K Foundations & NH LAKES
%
L
nda
1.8
1
fou
$11
$201K Zebra Mussel
Million
Total
Local Groups & Individuals
$6.7 Million Donations and in-kind volunteer Common Reed 1
labor and expenses
%
60.4
Preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species in New Hampshire
for 18 years - one boat and boater at a time!
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Invasive Species Don’t Stop at State Borders
The 18th season of the Lake Host to encourage family, friends, and Department of Environmental Services
Program—our nationally-recognized others to do the same by always verified 14 of these samples as
aquatic invasive species prevention cleaning, draining, and drying their invasive Eurasian Milfoil, Variable
program—flew by in a whirlwind of boat, trailer, and gear between Milfoil, Chinese Mystery Snail, or
hot temperatures and lots of boating waterbodies! Even though our lakes Water Chestnut. It only takes one
activity on New Hampshire’s lakes and are now frozen, you can still take the boat, containing water with invasive
ponds! Over 92,500 inspections were pledge and spread the word by going animal larvae or a fragment of an
conducted in 2019 by the 600+ to nhlakes.org/invasivefree. invasive plant, to cause an infestation
trained Lake Host Inspectors stationed in a waterbody. If there is a boat
at approximately 100 of the most Make Sure Your Lake is Protected access site on your lake, make sure it
highly-visited boat launches in New in 2020 is protected through the Lake Host
Hampshire. More than 15,000 boats inspected in Program. The 2020 Lake Host
2019 through the Lake Host Program Program Grant Application will be
Lake Hosts spent over 48,000 hours arrived at a launch protected by a Lake available in February—NEW groups
by the water teaching boaters the Host directly after being in a are encouraged to apply!
importance of aquatic invasive species waterbody infested with an aquatic
prevention efforts and inviting them to invasive species. Lake Hosts removed For More Information:
“take the pledge” to help keep New 117 suspicious plants and animals Visit nhlakes.org or contact us at
Hampshire’s lakes a boater’s paradise. from boats during courtesy info@nhlakes.org or 603.226.0299.
Boaters who took the pledge promised inspections. The New Hampshire
Save the Date!
Thursday, May 28, & Friday, May 29, 2020
What are our lakes telling us as the Panel, will deliver the Lakes Congress water. Our 28th annual Lakes Congress
climate is changing? Join us at our 2020 keynote address on “Lakes as education, training, and networking
2020 Lakes Congress to find out! Sentinels of Climate Change.” Also, Eric event will be held on May 28 and 29 at
Dr. Craig Williamson, leader of the Eckl of Water Words That Work will Church Landing in Meredith—don’t
Global Change Limnology Laboratory present a workshop focusing on how miss it! Stayed tuned for more
and member of the United Nations conservation organizations are information and be ready to register in
Environment Programme increasingly weaving climate science early April—the event has sold out the
Environmental Effects Assessment into their efforts to protect land and past two years!
Your Vehicle Purchase Could Support the 2020 Lakes Congress!
If you have purchased a vehicle from Grappone Automotive
Group since June 2019, please let us know! If we can tie
the sale of 10 vehicles to NH LAKES members, Grappone
Automotive will sponsor our 2020 Lakes Congress.
Contact us at info@nhlakes.org or 603.226.0299.
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Resolve to Use Less Salt in 2020!
by Chris Avery, Salt Reduction Program Coordinator, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
With winter storms in full swing, it’s Here’s the good news: There are trained and certified in the most
time to think about snow and ice multiple actions you can take at home up-to-date technologies and snow
removal. While it’s important to ensure to reduce your salt usage. and ice management practices,
our driving and walking surfaces are ensuring a high level of service and
safe, we have to keep in mind how our • Reducing the amount of paved safety to customers, while reducing
ice reduction practices can negatively surfaces at your home will not only salt use. One of the key benefits of
affect the waterbodies we love. help replenish groundwater and Green SnowPro certification, besides
reduce toxic runoff water, it will reducing negative impacts upon
Here’s some background: As of 2018, reduce the amount of surface you waterways and reducing operating
48 waterbodies in New Hampshire need to maintain during the winter. expenses, is the limited liability relief
were polluted with chloride • Thoroughly shoveling and sweeping that it affords salt applicators and
concentrations from winter road salt paved surfaces can reduce, or even property owners in the event of slip
use to the point they no longer avoid, the need for salt. and fall claims. There are currently
supported healthy fish and other over 1,000 Green SnowPro applicators
aquatic life. What most people do not • Using only sand can help provide
certified by the State of New
realize is that more than 50% of the traction.
Hampshire and that number is
applied winter salt comes from private • If you have multiple entrances to growing. Feel free to ask your local
roads and parking lots. On average, your home, try designating one of contractor if they hold a valid
there is double the amount of chloride them as your ‘winter entrance’ and certification through the New
present in New Hampshire only maintain the walkway to that Hampshire Green SnowPro Program.
waterbodies than what is considered door. To learn more about this program, visit
to be naturally-occurring. We also des.nh.gov.
• If you live in a community that hires
know, from research across the
contractors for plowing roads or
snowbelt, people use 30 to 50% more It doesn’t take a massive effort by a
driveways, consider contractors that
salt than needed to protect public single person to help make a positive
have valid certifications through the
safety. At this time, the only way to change in our environment. Small
New Hampshire Green SnowPro
prevent chlorides (the toxic part of change, by everyone, helps us keep
Program.
salt) from reaching surface and this beautiful state, and its precious
groundwater is to reduce the amount New Hampshire Certified Green bodies of water, pristine for future
applied to roadways and parking lots SnowPros are leaders in the snow and generations.
without compromising public safety. ice management industry. They are
Belknap Landscape Company has received the If you must use salt to de-ice walkways, scatter it
Green SnowPro Certification. sparingly, and don’t leave it in piles, as shown in this photo.
(Photo Credit: Belknap Landscape Company)
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Make a Resolution to be
LakeSmart in 2020!
by Andrea LaMoreaux, Vice President, NH LAKES
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I don’t—well, I • Yard, Recreation Areas, and Footpaths: There’s no grass
haven’t for a long time. I have a history of making New on the property, so no worries about phosphorus
Year’s resolutions I have no chance of accomplishing. pollution from fertilizer. But, the footpath to the
Things like stop chewing my fingernails, learn to rock climb boathouse sometimes funnels runoff water into the lake
(after getting over my fear of heights), and pull together a during big storms. Planting a bunch of low-bush
synchronized swimming team of my middle-aged friends blueberry plants around the path should do the trick!
(ever heard of the Synchro Sisters that perform in Norway • Shoreline and Water Access: Most of the shoreline is
Pond each summer for Hancock’s Old Home Days?). lined with trees, shrubs, ferns, and ground covers,
Well, this year is going to be different. I have committed to stabilizing the bank and providing food and shelter for all
a resolution I believe is achievable and will result in great sorts of critters. But, I’ll need to talk to my parents about
benefit to me, my family, and others—and, one that will the bubbler protecting the boathouse from ice damage
truly make a difference to our lakes. I resolve, in 2020, to during the winter—I don’t know if it’s on a timer or has a
work with my parents so that our family property on thermostat to minimize the amount of water opened up.
Lake Sunapee earns the coveted NH LAKES LakeSmart With these simple improvements, I know my family’s
Award. property will achieve LakeSmart status, helping to keep
Lake Sunapee clean and healthy. And, for the first time in
The NH LAKES LakeSmart Program is an education, many years, I’m confident I will accomplish my New Year’s
evaluation, and recognition program that assists property resolution! Have you made a resolution for 2020 yet? If you
owners in managing activities in their home, on their haven’t—or even if you have—please join me in helping to
property, and along and on the lake in ways that help keep make lake-friendly living a cultural norm. Find out how at
lakes clean and healthy. The program begins with an online nhlakes.org/lakesmart or email lakesmart@nhlakes.org.
property owner survey followed by the option to send in
photos or invite a LakeSmart Evaluator for a site visit. All
property owners receive a confidential report with lake-
friendly living suggestions. Owners of properties that score
high receive the LakeSmart Award—two LakeSmart signs
to post for friends and neighbors to see! The overarching
goal of LakeSmart is to make lake-friendly living a cultural
norm.
Because of the snow cover, it will be a few months before I
will be able to evaluate our property, but I already have
ideas about some lake-friendly living improvements that
could be made!
• Driveway and Parking Areas: Our property is on an
island, so we park our vehicles at a marina on the
mainland. We aren’t in charge of managing these
driveway and parking areas, so we’re off the hook—kind
of. I’m thinking my 2021 resolution will be working with
the marina to achieve LakeSmart status!
• Structures and Wastewater Treatment Systems: The
septic system is only two years old, but I’m pretty sure
we’re using cleaning products that wash phosphorus and
toxins down the drain—we’ll need to switch to some
alternatives. I also know rainwater from the roof washes
bark mulch and soil down the hill toward the lake—
Shauna Kondrat of Big Pea Porridge Pond in Madison received
nothing a few stone-filled dripline infiltration trenches
her LakeSmart Award, and you could too!
can’t fix!
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De-icing Theory and Practice
by Paul Goodwin, Watermark Marine Systems, LLC
There are a lot of myths and form ice. This is why lakes, ponds, dock. Some areas of our lakes are
misconceptions regarding de-icing and rivers freeze only on the surface more regularly susceptible to ice floe
around docks, breakwaters, and and fish can survive in the relatively damage from year to year. Of course,
boathouses during the winter warm water below. ‘ice out’ and the thawing process is
months. First and foremost, everyone not an exact science, so almost any
seems to call these units something During the winter months, the ice structure can be at risk from ice floes.
different. I’ve heard bubbler, aerator, expands and moves around. If a dock
circulator, pump, aquatherm, and is frozen in the ice, it is likely to be Years ago, and this is the origin of the
de-icer used interchangeably for as damaged. If the water levels are low, words ‘bubbler’ and ‘aerator,’ small
long as I can remember. In the end, and the ice rises due to rain and air compressor pumps were used on
they all mean the same thing: some inflow, then pilings can be pulled out docks during the freezing months and
sort of mechanical or electrical device of the lake bottom. It is this a garden hose-like pipe was wound
to keep the freezing ice from combination of factors which causes around the structure, resting on the
wrecking waterfront structures. the ‘ski jump’ type damage often seen lake bottom. The air flow through the
on piling docks in the spring. The goal hose, which had numerous pin-holes
Let’s review the theory and physical with de-icing is to open-up just along its length, allowed air bubbles
properties of de-icing around a dock. enough water to keep structures to escape and race to the surface,
One of the unique properties of water disconnected from the ice sheet, but bringing up warm water and causing
is that as it starts to freeze, its only enough to accomplish this weak spots or open water in the ice
density changes. Around 39 degrees separation. at the surface. These compressors
Fahrenheit, water reaches its ran non-stop and were relatively
maximum density, creating a flip-flop It’s important to understand that a noisy. Neighbors were typically
effect that brings less dense, slightly de-icer only prevents ice damage due unhappy with the cumulative noise
warmer water to the lake surface. to freezing expansion and water level and often a cover was constructed to
This occurs until all the water in the changes. A de-icer does not protect a make them quieter. Covers could
lake cools to 39 degrees. From there, structure from large ice floes moving cause units to overheat and fail and,
the surface water continues to cool to randomly around in the spring. Spring once the ice refroze, it was usually
32 degrees (the point at which water floe ice is best counteracted with ice impossible to restore open water.
is its least dense) and it expands to protection pilings or by removing a One advantage of this type of unit
Ice damage caused by improper de-icing techniques. This is an example of how to de-ice around a dock without
(Photo Credit: Watermark Marine Systems, LLC) creating an open water area that extends beyond the
property. (Photo Credit: Watermark Marine Systems, LLC)
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was the relatively small amount of special shorefront consideration? Are
open water at the surface; however, you around in the winter to monitor
as they ran constantly, they were not the ice? All these factors must be
energy efficient. considered in choosing your best
alternative.
Most people today are probably more
familiar with the propeller-type aerator We suggest having someone
units. These can be floating, hanging, available to monitor your ice
bottom mounted, or dock mounted. protection gear and starting out with
These types of units can open an either a bottom mount circulator in
incredible amount of ice, if run shallow water and a hanging unit in
constantly. These work by bringing deeper water. By actively managing
relatively warm water up from the the circulators during the changing
bottom and pushing it around the season, you can control the amount
docks via the spinning propeller. of open water and electricity used.
Using a timer and a thermostat will
So, the question everyone asks is: allow you to accurately regulate the
what will work best for me? open water around your dock.
Unfortunately, there is no easy or
correct answer. Each site is affected Every site is unique. Through some
by freezing ice differently and one simple experimentation and This is a good example of how to provide
must consider a number of factors, intelligent management of your ice reflective ‘Thin Ice’ signs that are visible
on the lake from all directions (Note:
such as, winter uses, sun exposure, protection gear, you can custom tune
Signs are facing to the right, left, and
currents, depth contours, prevailing de-icing to your specific conditions middle of the lake.) (Photo Credit:
winds, and other site specific factors without stirring up sediment or Watermark Marine Systems, LLC)
to maximize efficiency and minimize undermining structures. You will save
too much open water. Do you like a considerable amount of electricity
to snowmobile, ice fish, or skate and and reduce the amount of open water
need safe access to the ice? Do you around your shoreline structures, too!
have a long dock, wide dock, or a
If you operate a
de-icing unit…
Effective July 14, 2019, the New Hampshire
Legislature passed House Bill 668 which amended
RSA 270:33. This amendment restricts the
placement and operation of “aquatherms” to limit
open water to directly in front of a lakefront
owner’s property. Additionally, “THIN ICE” signs
must be visible from ALL directions approaching
the area, which means a minimum of three signs,
arranged in a triangle so as to be visible from all
angles.
As in the past, all shoreline de-icing equipment
operation requires registration with the New
Hampshire Department of Safety under RSA
270:34. Registration forms are available from your In New Hampshire we are fortunate our lakes and ponds
local Town or City Clerk for $0.50. become covered with ice during the winter as this allows for
another season of recreation. However, never assume the ice is
thick enough to support your weight. Always check it first!
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Meet Bob and Cathy Reed—Charter Members
of the NH LAKES Legacy Society!
Does your investment capital gains. They also transferred enough share value so
portfolio include any they easily exceeded the $24,400 IRS standard deduction,
long-term highly thereby allowing their other 2019 contributions and
appreciated stock? deductions to be combined and deducted.
And, have you
thought about making “We wanted to transfer enough into this Fund to pay out
a meaningful our intended annual contributions to NH LAKES for the
contribution to NH next ten years,” explained Bob. “By that time, we will be at
LAKES to ensure New an age where the IRS requires minimum distributions from
Hampshire’s lakes our IRAs and that is how we will make our contributions
remain clean and tax-free going forward.”
healthy, now and in
When asked why they set up a fund with a single
Cathy and Bob Reed the future? Bob and
designated beneficiary rather than having the opportunity
Cathy Reed looked to
to give to multiple charities, Bob said “NH LAKES is our
the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to help them
primary charity!”
navigate this very situation.
Thank you, Bob and Cathy, for making clean and healthy
Bob and Cathy knew they could go online and set up a
lakes your philanthropic priority!
donor advised fund through Schwab or Fidelity (among
many others), but they liked the idea of working with If you are interested in learning more about becoming a
someone at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. member of the NH LAKES Legacy Society, contact Martha
After consulting with a member of the staff at the Lovejoy, Director of Finance and Development, at
Foundation, they established the Bob and Cathy Reed mlovejoy@nhlakes.org. If you are interested in learning
Charitable Fund and suggested NH LAKES should be the more about giving opportunities and potential tax benefits,
designated beneficiary. contact Laura Rauscher, New Hampshire Charitable
Foundation Director of Development and Philanthropy
The Reeds transferred highly appreciated stock directly to
Services, at ljr@nhcf.org.
the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, giving them
the current value of the stock while avoiding taxes on the
NH LAKES Welcomes Two New Executive
Directors to the Lake Conservation Community
Two of our local partner groups went through a change of NH LAKES looks forward
hands this past fall welcoming new executive directors. to working with both
The Newfound Lake Region Rebecca and Jon!
Association welcomed Rebecca
Hanson as the organization’s We extend a special
new executive director. thanks to Boyd Smith for
Rebecca previously worked at all his contributions as the
the Squam Lakes Association previous executive director
where she was Director of protecting Newfound Lake
Conservation. And, the Acton and its watershed. And, a
Wakefield Watersheds Alliance special thanks also goes to
recently welcomed Jon Balanoff Linda Schier, Acton
as their new executive director. Wakefield Watersheds
Jon was previously the Tidal Alliance’s previous
Crossing Assessment Linda Schier and Jon Balanoff executive director, for all
Coordinator at the New she has done protecting
Hampshire Department of and restoring the lakes and ponds of Wakefield, New
Rebecca Hanson Hampshire, and the border region of Acton, Maine.
Environmental Services.
10 Working for clean and healthy lakesNH LAKES Lakeside / Winter 2020
NH LAKES Board and Staff Happenings
Welcome! Please join us in welcoming Brad Melson and Bob Varney is a former U.S. Environmental Protection
Chris Hussey to the NH LAKES Board of Directors! Agency New England Administrator and Commissioner of
the New Hampshire Department of Environmental
Brad Melson is a corporate Services. NH LAKES board chair, Stu Lord, had this to say
attorney with Orr & Reno, about Bob: “Bob had a story to tell about everything lake-
Professional Association, based related in New Hampshire. And, for almost every important
in Concord, New Hampshire. story about New Hampshire’s lakes over the past 40 years,
Brad has enjoyed New Bob was there, at the heart of it. He brought professional
Hampshire’s lakes from a very gravitas to NH LAKES, but with a humble and light
young age—originally as a personal touch.”
summertime visitor to Squam
Lake and, for the better part of Peter Sorlien has a long history of working to protect New
the last two decades, year-round Hampshire’s lakes, also serving on the boards of the Loon
at his family’s cabin on Lake Preservation Committee and the Squam Lakes Association.
Winnipesaukee’s Meredith Neck. Both Tom O’Brien, NH LAKES President, and Stu Lord tell
the story about the day Peter said, in a room full of NH
Brad had this to say about LAKES stakeholders, “no lake is an island.” That refrain
Brad Melson
joining the board: “Given its captured the spirit of NH LAKES’ strategic direction and
many successes and the basis for its very existence.
achievements of the past few years, these are clearly
exciting times at NH LAKES. I am thrilled to join the board To learn about the talented individuals serving on the NH
and work with the organization’s staff and many LAKES Board of Directors, visit nhlakes.org/board-staff. If
volunteers to implement NH LAKES’ ambitious vision and you are interested in serving, please contact Tom O’Brien
expand its impact in the years ahead!” at tobrien@nhlakes.org or 603.226.0299.
Chris Hussey is a lifelong Congratulations! Krystal Costa
resident of New Hampshire, Balanoff, NH LAKES
growing up in Keene and going Conservation Program
to college at the University of Coordinator, recently received a
New Hampshire. He began Stormwater Management
vacationing on New Hampshire’s Certificate through the University
lakes, including Spofford Lake, of New Hampshire on designing,
Lake Sunapee, and Granite Lake, building, and maintaining
as a small child. In fact, he took management systems for
his first steps at a cottage his treating polluted water runoff.
family rented for many years on This program was taught by
Spofford. Currently, he lives on industry leaders who have been
Cobbett’s Pond in Windham at the forefront of this issue in
with his wife and three New England. The course also
Chris Hussey boys. They spend just about Krystal and Jon Balanoff addressed the hurdles of
every summer evening after designing solutions for
work on their boat, water skiing, tubing, wake surfing, or managing polluted runoff in the face of changing weather
taking relaxing cruises. In his professional life, Chris is a patterns. If you have had the pleasure of working with
senior tax manager with the Certified Public Accounting Krystal, you may have noticed her name change—we are
firm Baker Newman Noyes. happy to share the joyous news that Krystal and Jon
Balanoff tied the knot on top of South Moat Mountain this
Thank you! Please join us in thanking Bob Varney and past fall! Jon was also recently hired as the new Executive
Peter Sorlien for their years of service on the NH LAKES Director of the Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance.
Board of Directors—their terms concluded at the end of Congrats all around!
2019, both having served since 2011!
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Inside this issue
Advocate for Clean and Healthy Lakes in 2020
From the President...
Legislative Advocacy Survey Results
In Memoriam
Invasive Species Don’t Stop at State Borders
Save the Date! Thursday, May 28, & Friday, May 29, 2020
Resolve to Use Less Salt in 2020!
Make a Resolution to be LakeSmart in 2020!
De-icing Theory and Practice
Meet Bob and Cathy Reed—Charter Members
of the NH LAKES Legacy Society!
NH LAKES Welcomes Two New Executive
Directors to the Lake Conservation Community
NH LAKES Board and Staff Happenings
Membership Matters
Membership Matters
New Members: September 11, 2019 – December 9, 2019
Individuals Charlene and Joe Malek
Nancy Arsenault Frank and Jo-Anne Marino
Elizabeth Bauer and Martin Milkovic Donald and Sabra McBride
Carol Biron Bradford and Maralyn Melson
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Bowen Kit Morgan
Susan Bucknam Mr. and Mrs. Rene Pelletier
Karen Coteleso Jeffrey and Valerie Perkins
Lynn Demerchant Mr. and Mrs. Fred Piehl
Robert DuBois Kenneth Quinney
Mark and Jean Duffy Glen and Kitty Rodgers
Deborah Finch Donald and Rosemarie San Souci
Robert Fitzsimmons Tink and Fran Taylor
Allison Flint Stephanie and Glenn Thornton
William and Virginia Gassman Diana Tompkins
Dennis Giampietro Ellen Winkler
Jim and Missy Haas Susan and Jim Wright
Ralph and Elizabeth Holmes Toni LaMonica and Larry Young
Sally and Michael Keating Businesses
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