UPDATE Sep 4, 2023: There is still – a month and more after the Big Precipitation Events – a lot of water being held back by the intact landscape. See below
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Sandy Lake fan and top Sandy Lake iNaturalist reporter Sybil Nunn recently spotted the red-topped post at right in the water at Sandy Lake, just below the big parking lot.
She wondered what it’s for and speculated it’s for monitoring water levels. That seems logical as there was massive flooding of the lake and many low areas withon in the Sandy Lake watershed in late July and early August and further downstream in Bedford. Two residents close to Sandy Lake estimated that the lake rose 5-6 ft above previous levels, and said it only started to come down a couple of weeks back. Continue reading