Bob Kingsbury

To the editor:

Lake Winnipesaukee is the source of the drinking water for Laconia.

Milfoil treatment by either 2,4 D or by Diquat means instant death for plants. Not only do those chemicals kill plants, they also kill people.

Putting those chemicals in our drinking water dilutes them so that people do not die instantly. In a diluted form those chemicals cause cancers. Cancers may kill slowly, but none the less cancers do kill people.

The use of milfoil killing chemicals by Gilford, makes the residents of Gilford responsible for all treatments and costs due to cancer for all the cancers that occur in Laconia. (Many if not most of the residents of Gilford use well water which is free of any chemicals. So they are not doing this to themselves.)

It is wrong for any of the agents of the State of New Hampshire to agree to any addition of any chemical to our drinking water supply.

It is wrong for the agents of the State of New Hampshire to permit septic systems that are close to the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee, because that septage drains right into Lake Winnipesaukee. When we in Laconia drink our drinking water we are drinking water that contains other people's toilet flushings.

Let us who live in Laconia give thanks to the Winnipesaukee Yacht Club for having put an initial stop to the polluting of our drinking water by the residents of Smith Cove.

Bob Kingsbury

Laconia