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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:28:28 -0400, HK wrote:

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:16:39 -0400, DownTime wrote:


What possible and hopefully logical answer can tell me why anyone in
their right mind would chain a log to the bottom of a lake?
Time.

http://www.centralsc.org/content/?nid=70&cid=116

Money...it was done on the cheap.


On the St. Johns River near Green Cove Springs, the "unseen waters" near
the shorelines are full of pilings that represent the remains of docks
long gone. Some are just enough below the surface to play havoc with any
sort of prop on any sort of drive. Maybe it has changed now, but when I
lived and boated in NE Florida, no effort was made to mark any of these.
There are other parts of the river with submerged pilings, of course,
but there were a hell of a lot of them concentrated just north of the
Shands Bridge.

I'll agree money was the usual reason trees were left standing on some
impoundments, but according to the link I posted, the Santee Cooper
project was declared "necessary for national defense" during WWII. Why,
exactly, I don't know, but there was a rush to complete it, leaving trees
chained to stumps.

They needed the electricity to power the military industrial complex. I
would guess the ship building in the Charleston area.