Help! Everyone's Dock is Submerged on Camp Creek Lake.

[floridiandreams]

Mother Nature

I am guessing most folks worried about coastal dune lakes outfall have not lived here for very long.

It is part of Mother Nature's will. It will all even out.
Imagine this:
If every time someone complains about one of the lakes getting too full, then all the freaked out neighbors rally together and takes action with a bulldozer, imagine what the outcome of that will be! No outfall at all, not lake at all, oops... everyone on 30A lives next to mud puddle. Oh.... no...

This is nothing new!

We live in a beautiful ecosystem that we should all be grateful for!

 

[Miss Kitty]

I am guessing most folks worried about coastal dune lakes outfall have not lived here for very long.

It is part of Mother Nature's will. It will all even out.
Imagine this:
If every time someone complains about one of the lakes getting too full, then all the freaked out neighbors rally together and takes action with a bulldozer, imagine what the outcome of that will be! No outfall at all, not lake at all, oops... everyone on 30A lives next to mud puddle. Oh.... no...

This is nothing new!

We live in a beautiful ecosystem that we should all be grateful for!

Great post!

hnooe...didn't we have this same conversation before? I remember something about floating docks. ;-)

 

[hnooe]

Great post!

hnooe...didn't we have this same conversation before? I remember something about floating docks. ;-)

Yea we did....I am going to quit complaning about Mother Nature, and just let her do her thing...I am too impatient!

 

[organicmama]

Yea we did....I am going to quit complaning about Mother Nature, and just let her do her thing...I am too impatient!

Didn't we have this conversation this morning?

 

[Matt J]

Didn't we have this conversation this morning?

Yes, my pupil's are still glued to the back of my head. :roll:

 

[Lake View Too]

I am guessing most folks worried about coastal dune lakes outfall have not lived here for very long.

It is part of Mother Nature's will. It will all even out.
Imagine this:
If every time someone complains about one of the lakes getting too full, then all the freaked out neighbors rally together and takes action with a bulldozer, imagine what the outcome of that will be! No outfall at all, not lake at all, oops... everyone on 30A lives next to mud puddle. Oh.... no...

This is nothing new!

We live in a beautiful ecosystem that we should all be grateful for!

The situation at Eastern Lake is different in that it was started by a developer depositing 27 dumptruck loads of filldirt into the floodplain of the inlet after Ivan. The sand that has accrued since then has blocked the inlet from ever opening naturally. Also, the lake encroaches to where it is touching some houses on the lake causing structural damage. I hope all of you are cognizant that if beach renourishment ever comes to SoWal it will certainly impact the lakes.

 

[Matt J]

The situation at Eastern Lake is different in that it was started by a developer depositing 27 dumptruck loads of filldirt into the floodplain of the inlet after Ivan. The sand that has accrued since then has blocked the inlet from ever opening naturally. Also, the lake encroaches to where it is touching some houses on the lake causing structural damage. I hope all of you are cognizant that if beach renourishment ever comes to SoWal it will certainly impact the lakes.

Hmm, it couldn't have anything to do with forcing the lake open could it? Ever ailment that has ever befallen Eastern Lake is blamed on this one incident. When the weeds were overgrown it was blamed on this, not the owners with grass that extends to the shoreline who fertilize it. When the salinity of the lake was at an all time low (no proof this isn't a natural cycle or mention of the fact that the salinity has only been measured for a very short period) it was all the fault of this one individual.

Perhaps the most vocal group on Eastern lake shouldn't have built their homes in what amounts to a FLOOD plain.

 

[Matt J]

Looks like Eastern Lake opened this morning. The lake has dropped about a foot.

 

[hnooe]

Looks like Eastern Lake opened this morning. The lake has dropped about a foot.

Good for all the Eastern Lakers--boy, I am just glad I built my place at 20 feet above sea level.

I can and will wait this one out, do you hear me God?" :roll:

 

[Lake View Too]

Salinity

Eastern Lake was opened by the county. It has not broken out naturally in probably four years. In the fifty years I have been observing Eastern Lake the salinity has never dropped to the point where it has wiped out entire species of plants and wildlife, as it has now. The sawgrass that was prevelant since the early sixties has been completely replaced by cattails. There is no more mullet and bluecrab. Freshwater invasive plants are now digging in. This is in no way a cycle but a clear change in the ecology of this lake brought upon by the damming of the inlet.