In a joint meeting on Oct. 11, members of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section and the Real Property Law discussed issues of common concern involving real estate development pressure on Lake Winnipesaukee.

The meeting, which was to include a boat ride around the lake (cancelled due to rainy weather), was well-attended and focused in particular on the overlapping jurisdiction of wetlands statutes and regulations and the state Shoreline Protection Act, said Environmental Law Chair Dana Bisbee.

The meeting took place at the boathouse of the Division of Safety Services of the Department of Safety, headquarters for the Marine Patrol, in Gilford.

Bisbee said another joint meeting of the Environmental and Real Property sections is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 10 at the headquarters of Public Service of NH in Manchester’s Mill yard. The topic will be the development of contaminated properties (the PSNH building is an example.) 

Brad Kuster, an attorney with the Concord office of the Conservation Law Foundation, pinpoints areas of concern on a map of Lake Winnepesaukee at an Oct. 11 joint meeting of the Environmental Law and Real Property Sections