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[email protected] FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 FREE www.waterbororeporter.com LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED Little Ossipee Lake drawdown Oct. 1 BY BRIGIT MCCALLUM gins earlier than most other years,
[email protected] when the drawdown begins on Oct. 15. “I just want everyone Little Ossipee Lake home- to be aware so they can get their owner Don Holden wants to alert preparations made in time so they all lakefront residents that he will don’t go away for a week and begin drawing down the level of come back to find their boat on the lake on Thursday, Oct. 1. This the rocks.” is an annual event, where the two This annual activity is gov- gates on the dam at the intersec- erned by the Ossipee lake Water tion of Chadbourne Ridge and Level Policy, enacted by select- Webber Roads that controls the men Bob Fay, Dennis Abbott and flow of Little Ossipee Lake into Dale Witman on Sept. 1, 1996. Lake Arrowhead are lowered, to Holden recalls that in summer increase the flow of water out of 1995, hearing so many years of Maize in Maine the lake, thereby dropping the wa- complaints about the level of the ter level for the winter. lake. “You’d have people in the Holden is particularly con- coves saying the lake’s too low, cerned that residents be aware and people on the main body of Local corn producers of the timing, because this year the lake saying it was too high.” is one where the drawdown be- (Continued on page 12) weigh-in on one of The Maine’s favorite crops Dam BY SHELLEY BURBANK that, according to the University to list,” said Jeannette of the vari-
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