Sandbag update

Last week we had hoped to plug the holes in our lake with sandbags. We actually had the first few bags loaded in our jonboat and were ready to go. Then our divers came up to the surface with bad news. Silt had covered the holes where we needed to place the sandbags. Silt, the consistency of mayonnaise, has been migrating down the steep sides of the lake, pulled down by gravity and washed in with rain and getting deeper and deeper into the bottom of the lake. The silt has slowed the exodus of water from the lake, but has not seemed to have much effect on the water loss.

We have hydrologists and other engineers studying our problem and working toward a thoughtful and responsible solution. We'll keep you updated here in the meantime.

Enjoy some pix we took recently as we GPS'd the around the lake's edge - sometimes we had to wade through mud as deep as our waists. You can see the we found a lost boat among other things that included a variety of beer cans dating back about as far as beer cans go, and some interesting shapes and patterns from the recently dried mud higher up the receding shoreline. Notice the rings in the last picture - they were fish beds that dried up.