On 11 Apr 2007 06:32:59 -0700, "Tim" wrote:


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 9 Apr 2007 17:05:39 -0700, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

fertilizer get washed into the watershed by equally enormous amounts
of wasted water. The enriched runoff water fosters a lot of microbes
that die off and use oxygen when they decompose.

We have two lakes in my immediate area right now that are being
subject to fertilizer use for land owners. The lakes are so overgrown
with aquatic weeds (non-invasive) that you can't even start your boat
or move ten feet without fouling on the weeds.

The talk is that one of the lakes is going to be completely drained,
stripped of weeds, allowed to sit for a year, then refilled.

Pretty drastic and all because of overdevelopment of the shore line.
Beautiful lawns, crappy lake.

Fortunately we don't ahve that problem with the lakes we have around
here.

Carlyle, Omega, Shelbyville, Decatur, and Ren Lake[s] are all river .

Basicly dammed up rivers which have a constant flow. Not saying tthere
may be some kind of a clean out in the future, but draining them would
be almost impossible.

Draining river pools is a lot easier said than done. A couple of
years ago a barge cut loose on the Ohio River and managed to wedge
itself into a dam's sluice gate (I believe it was the Bellevile lock &
dam). In any case, it was stuck in such a way that it held the gate
open and the water level on that pool had to be dropped significantly
and for a couple weeks in order to extricate it. As the water level
dropped, properties all along the river and its tributaries began to
collapse. It seems the water pressure and water table help hold up the
land near the river. My brother owns a piece of property on the Little
Kanawa river - a tributary of the Ohio near Parkersburg, WV. It has
been in our family for about 45 years. I was amazed at the damages.
For about 30 feet or so from the river the banks had simply collapsed.
They didn't fall into the river like erosion, they dropped vertically
about 6 feet pushing the underlying, fairly liquid, dirt underneath
out in to river. When the river was brought back to level there were
numerous trees out in the river standing straight up, but with their
bases 3 to 4 feet under water. What a mess. Barge company (and/or its
insurance companies) paid a LOT of money in repair damages to property
owners, although it was only a partial coverage of actual costs to
repair and you can never get those 80 year old trees back.

Dave Hall