In rebuttal to Dorthea Seybold’s letter, Maine’s DEP needs to protect water resources (June 23), she is mistaken.
No one has “blasted” a beaver dam, and there has been no meeting with the Department of Environmental Protection.
Tripp Lake has been artificially high for several years and this is doing untold damage to the lake and shore. The answer is to get the lake down to its natural level and keep it there. This was stated by people trained in this field in a meeting held at the Poland Town Office last fall.
Higher lake levels do not make the lake better. I have been part of Tripp Lake since the mid-50’s. To save the lake it needs to be kept at its “natural level.” Then and only then can you evaluate the condition of the lake.
As far as Tripp Lake Camp is concerned, when we were kids — after the girls left at end of season — we would go over and swim off the dock which was out of the water almost two feet. The lake was at its natural level and that is where it belongs.
High water is killing the lake. That’s a fact.
Fern Bosse, Norway
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