Proposed Weirs Beach improvements and dock work

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Originally Posted by fatlazyless

From what I've seen, there's just a small amount of smooth clean sand that has been eroded or pushed by wind driven waves around the rock jetty and into the shallow north side of the Weirs channel. The water depth there, close to the concrete sidewalk that runs about 30-yards from the state historic monument out to the jetty is about three feet deep so it improved the bottom changing it from mud and small rocks to all sand which is better for launching a kayak or paddle board as you walk along the sandy bottom, 3' deep, next to the sidewalk to get it out to the big water.

The sandy beach at Weirs Beach as well as the channel are in good to excellent condition as it is, right now. Would the beach be better if three inches of new clean sand were spread across the existing sand? Yes, that would be an improvement but it is already very good the way it is, now.

What works pretty good for grooming a sandy beach is to drag with a utility vehicle an old steel bed spring frame behind the vehicle to freshen up and groom the sand similar to grooming a red clay tennis court.

The docks are also in excellent condition, and can accommodate boats that are eight feet wide or smaller. The problem with not enough space happens when boats wider than eight feet tie up.

A 16' boat is usually six feet wide, an 18' boat is usually seven feet wide, and a 21' boat is usually eight feet wide, and the Weirs Beach docks are well designed, attractive looking, and can accommodate boats up to eight feet width, no problem. It all looks and works very very good as it is, right now.

It's our fifth season with a boat on the lake. I don't think we've been to the Weirs a single time on a summer weekend where there hasn't been several interior dock spaces unoccupied because of how narrow the docks are. The vast majority of the boats on the lake today have beams 8'6" and up. The docks need to be widened at least 8 feet to solve this. Maybe more.