Polinishero of Fryeburg, ME All those high water water advocates in DEP, COLA , and the China Lake Association etc who supported constant high water in China Lake must be feeling a little guilty for causing a management plan which ruined China Lake. Since Maine is lacking in lake scientists who have a brain or lack a spine, it has taking a while for many to figure it out but lake experts from other lake states will tell you constant high water levels in a lake like China lake with large fringing wetlands and marine clay shorelines is a recipe for water quality disaster. Anadromous fish should be able to return to their historical ranges. It would be good for the ecosystem, ocean fishery and it would improve the economy. China Lake needs more than Alewives. It needs honesty in lake management.report abuse

partytom62 of winslow, ME RadioHead you nailed it, the Opinion Editor of this newspaper is just pulling her pulpit to lay the foundation to take the remaining six dams. You know as well as I do that the only way manmade lakes will survive now in this state is if the lake associations buy their dams or the member of this editorial board is removed from the pulpit. I can only hope the sale of this paper will bring an Owner that is interested in having fair accurate reporting. THis paper has reported enough mistakes.report abuse

RADIOHEAD of CENTRAL, ME Wow....it only took one minute!!

Are you Batman, Al?report abuse

Al Althenn of China, ME “Retired game warden Roland Tilton, as knowledgeable about China Lake as Gray is about alewives, questioned introducing a fish that eats the zooplankton that eat the algae”.

Come on Mary, who are you working for? How did you arrive at your opinion that Mr. Gray and Mr. Tilton were equally knowledgeable in different disciplines?

I always thought a “newspaper person” was supposed to remain objective and balanced. How is reporting one person as an expert apparently simply on the basis that he once was a game warden, balanced reporting? Does Mr. Tilton have proven knowledge about China Lake, more than mine for instance?

I disagree with much of what Mr. Tilton has to say about the problems with China Lake, but of course I don’t own property in a very shallow cove. A cove that was once filled with lilly pads and marsh grasses before the lake was raised in 1969 and those natural plants were drowned by the increased water level.

Roland Tilton has fought for keeping China Lake unnaturally high for as long as I have been fighting to return China Lake to it’s natural pre 1969 level and regime. That level and fluctuation regime is necessary to allow the vast China Lake wetlands to heal from the disastrous effects of DEP special interest management, keeping the water high and stable.

A natural water level is necessary for allowing the wetlands to reestablish their “functions and values” and begin again to clean the water coming into the lake as nature meant them to.report abuse