To the editor: 

I want to briefly comment upon the almost dystopian appraisals of the access to water being exercised in our town. 

While I don't wish this to be CSI CFP, I do believe from the pictures and descriptions two separate groups are implicated. The group that does graffiti, leave empty bottles of alcohol and vandalize is in all likelihood teenagers from the town. I say this  having both represented in my time many teenagers and from my experience as a family court magistrate. Young people tend to find discrete places for their activity within their town; going to other communities causes any number of logistical problems and if you for instance create graffiti about your lasting love for someone it is no good if he/she doesn't see it anytime soon. 

The other discussions really had to do with both diapers and there was a photograph that showed a pile of partially burnt charcoal briquettes. This would be in all likelihood someone coming to the beach with a family, not likely to be vandals nor likely to leave alcohol bottles but people who if they have no readily available place to dispose of items or readily available facilities for bathroom use may, regrettably, end up leaving it as opposed to carrying it out. Both of these problems could be I think addressed in a non-enforcement way.

I do not intend to minimize the discomfort that people feel sometimes when they go along the beach and see items that don't belong there, but nonetheless I think if we are more welcoming perhaps they will treat the areas more properly.

thank you

Charles Levesque

542 Park Ave.

Portsmouth

Charles Levesque is a member of the Portsmouth Town Council.