[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference wahoo::fishing-v2

Title:Fishing-V2: All About Angling
Notice:Time to go fishin'! dayegins
Moderator:WAHOO::LEVESQUE
Created:Fri Jul 19 1991
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:548
Total number of notes:9621

485.0. "Lake Winnie Dam breaks" by NETCAD::BIRO () Fri Mar 15 1996 08:20

    
    
I just heard that a Dam in Alton Bay on Lake Winnipesaukee
broke last night.  So people say that a wave about 10 ft
high was seen.

The WEB
	http://www.winnipesaukee.com/aerphoto.htm
has a photo of Alton Bay.  

Does any one have any more news.

John



    
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name
DateLines
485.1Alton Bay updateMARX::KANEEd, "A bad day fishing beats the best day at work!"Fri Mar 15 1996 09:427
    YUP....pictures on TV news showed a tractor/trailer rig nose down in a 
    HUGE sink hole on Rt140? that the flood waters had created.  Driver was 
    ok...neighbors tossed him a rope & pulled him to "shore".  His WIFE was
    in a p/up ahead of his truck....it also ended up in the hole.  Last I
    heard they hadn't found her.
    
    /ed
485.2town of ALTON NOT ALTON BAYNETCAD::BIROFri Mar 15 1996 12:3117
	
	I just talk to someone who has a place up at Winnie.

The newspaper made a mistake, The dam broke in the
town of ALTON, NOT at ALTON BAY.  They are too different
place. ALTON BAY is part of Lake Winnie but the town
of ALTON is about a mile south.  The dam was part of a  small 
private pond in  the town of ALTON. It wipe out the a
section of route 140. 

	It would have been nice to go fishing in
	a boat under 10 feet of ice :)

John

    
                                             
485.344 thousand acres of water????OLMEC::JJUNGSun Mar 17 1996 12:495
    
    
    If it was a dam on Winni, we'd all be swimming.
    
    I don't think Winnipesaukee has a dam anyway.
485.4Gee, I had my hopes that a hydro plant was gone...LEXSS1::JOHNHCMon Mar 18 1996 13:285
    Two dams on Winnipesaukee, both in Laconia. They're both hydro dams. 
    If both dams broke today, the only difference you would see is that you
    could navigate between Winnipesaukee and Winnisquam.
    
    John H-C