Invest in Chocorua Lake

A Campaign to Restore the Shoreline, Dam, and Lake Ecosystem

If you'd like the full amount of your campaign gift be spent on these important projects and avoid CLC incurring a ~3% credit card processing fee, please mail a check with "Invest in Chocorua Lake" in the memo line to:

Chocorua Lake Conservancy, PO Box 105, Chocorua, NH 03817

Two Major Restoration Projects

Stabilize and restore the eastern shoreline of Chocorua Lake.
Repair the dam at the outflow of the Little Lake and add a rock ramp to the dam to enable aquatic organism passage and restore the lake ecosystem.

Why They’re Important

Shoreline Restoration: Revegetating the eastern shoreline and reducing sediment transport into Chocorua Lake is important to maintaining the lake’s overall water quality, especially as climate change models project more frequent and extreme weather events.
Dam Repair: If the dam continued to crumble and Chocorua Lake dropped three feet, the lakeshore would extend further into Chocorua Lake, creating three lakes separated by low saddles with water trickling through them at low water. During dry summers, some boats would have difficulty getting under the Narrows Bridge and swimmers at the Tamworth Residents Beach and Sandy Beach would have to wade out over 300 feet to swim in water over their heads.

Rock Ramp: This project will restore the ecosystem that existed before the first dam was built at Chocorua Lake in the early 1900s. Constructing a rock ramp at the location of the current sluiceway will allow for the upstream passage of aquatic organisms, such as native brook trout and slimy sculpin, between the Chocorua River and Chocorua Lake, establishing 15 miles of uninterrupted habitat corridor.