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Originally Posted by tis
"...It is a damn big hassle and I only see it getting bigger...I think it is a huge mess down there and will only get worse in April..."
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Speaking of mess, one of the area's biggest spec-builders got to a "tear down" near me, bulldozed the lot, and walked away. The resulting spring flood washed tons of silt, sand, and soil downslope and into the lake—
then they put up a silt fence! (And then a second—then a third silt fence, then a fourth—and a few generations of hay bales.)
The two newest neighboring homes will have to dredge the lake bottom for their boats as a result of the spec-builder's failure to mitigate their own series of cascading failures.
The problem continues
uphill, which this spring will likely see a big fertilized lawn on an impossibe-to-mow slope to keep still more of the scarified lot from ending up in the lake. It's possible that wood chips will be used instead, which also get washed into the lake—then gets replenished again. This gross inattention to Mother Nature only serves to feed the algae and milfoil already in the lake.
This photo shows how the localized flooding even carried rocks downhill across the dock's surface.
Something has to be done to keep the lake healthy, and it wasn't happening in 2007.