Eastern Lake outlet opened today

[laurawood]

grayton beach lake opened as well. Hopefully the lake's salinity will become better balanced.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Excellent news....There goes the County's 150k dollar project.....Hopefully, this will alleviate the problems residents were experiencing with Eastern Lake....By the way, there are no requirements for monitoring septic tanks. Leaching from septic tanks is one of the main threats to the lakes (because we live on sand dunes). The County needs to look at a plan to remove septic systems from environmentally sensitive areas (and the rest of the county for that matter)....

Great pictures....

$150,000??? Heck all they need is about $100 worth of three-dollar plastic shovels and thirty kids, and a lake can be opened in less than a day or two. The trench doesn't have to be dug 30 ft across like the last time the track hoe opened it up. The lake needs only a little start, and the rest will take care of itself.

 

[CBA Phillip]

Maybe you can put in a bid.....I am not sure about the Child Labor Laws, but I have faith that you will think of something.....

 

[Babyblue]

Here's the outflow this morning. Still wide and fast.

Nice picture of my house!

 

[relaygirl]

You can call it Kids' Day at Grayton

 

[Kurt]

Does anyone know why it smells so bad close to the outlet into the ocean? I haven't been out there since Sat. night, but it was pretty bad then.

Sulfur, which we have an abundance of dissolved in our groundwater and lakes.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Sulfur, which we have an abundance of dissolved in our groundwater and lakes.

If that what you smelled was the same which I smelled, it was dead sealife. I notice many Sea Cucmbers (little slug looking creatures) were washing up on the beach on Sat. When walking down the inlet to the Gulf, I noticed the fresh seafood smell, quickly followed by some rotten seafood smells just a few steps farther. Perhaps it was a many sea creatures rotting after the sun heated them up and cooked them to death on the beach.

 

[tistheseason]

$150,000??? Heck all they need is about $100 worth of three-dollar plastic shovels and thirty kids, and a lake can be opened in less than a day or two.

I have a rug-rat I can loan them! He'll think it's a great day!

 

[Smiling JOe]

Maybe you can put in a bid.....I am not sure about the Child Labor Laws, but I have faith that you will think of something.....

If they paid me $150K, I could do it with my own back in a week. You just call me the next time that issue comes up. Heck, I could buy a keg and some Amore pizza and call it a party and we will have it open and running faster than the track hoe and the three guys watching the operator. I could even get Waco or Dread to play along to keep the digging pace up.

 

[Kurt]

If they paid me $150K, I could do it with my own back in a week. You just call me the next time that issue comes up. Heck, I could buy a keg and some Amore pizza and call it a party and we will have it open and running faster than the track hoe and the three guys watching the operator. I could even get Waco or Dread to play along to keep the digging pace up.

Interesting idea.

It reminds me of the day before yesterday. A warm, late Summer, sunny Sunday afternoon as I was floating down the Western Lake outlet rapids sipping a cold one among the crabs and fish there was a kind party on the bank with DC cranking from the back of their Explorer. :clap_1: