Forest Lake Dam

“ FOREST LAKE DAM BREACH JULY 9, 2023, WINCHESTER NH:    For the next 30 days the FLIA, HL Turner and the NH DES Dam Bureau will be collecting data, conducting evaluations, and looking at short term plans for 2023,  as well as interim plans for 2024.  Long term plans for 2025 are clear and remain the reconstruction of the dam. This event has done nothing to change the overall goal by the FLIA of renovating the dam. That work continues.

The following weeks will be filled with paperwork, meetings, emergency permits, decision making, and site work.  NH DES Dam, the FLIA and the Town of Winchester understand the value and importance of Forest Lake as a recreational asset for everyone in the Winchester community. Other divisions of DES like Watershed Management are already weighing in to help advise us and support decision making. The FLIA will move with haste to develop plans and execute them.  However, there are rules and laws, and we will follow them, crossing T’s and dotting I’s.

Planning is already underway. Timing for all future actions is currently unknown.  Updates will be issued as decisions are made. ”