Algae solutions discussed

Please, all you do is talk about it! How's about dredge the lake?! Dredging
Heavy equipment or specialized hydraulic dredges can remove accumulated lake sediments to increase depth and to eliminate nutrient-rich sediments. Dredging may control rooted aquatic vegetation, deepen the water body, and increase lake volume. By removing nutrient-rich sediment, dredging can improve water quality.
OH I KNOW! Hire someone who knows wtf they are doing to sit in on your many TALKS!! Maybe then there will be some kind of action that actually works!!

I spent a good part of Monday helping Jeff Smith clean out the algae near Sunset Resort. With two of us in the water and Jeff's wife driving the boat we were able to clean out most of the algae from the cove.

I think Jeff will be able to prove that if we keep water circulating in these small coves we can keep the algae down. But we do need to work on the problem before it gets so far out of hand.

your environmental permit to move the weeds.

This is not right without more study.

Suggestion

Much of this has been covered in the Blue-Green Algae thread, if you want info or further discussion.

Ben or Jeff, let me know if /when you go out. I'll help.(in the book or ask Denise Rushing or Rob Brown)

If property owners used less fertilizer on their lawns and gardens less nutrients would leach into the lake and feed the algae. I know that the pot would not grow as well and the economy might colapse.

Your lead made me believe this entire story was about algae.

"I spent a good part of Monday helping Jeff Smith clean out the algae near Sunset Resort. With two of us in the water and Jeff's wife driving the boat we were able to clean out most of the algae from the cove."

Wow, thanks Jeff for helping out a RESORT owner clean up her property. What about helping clear the lake in areas where POOR or EVERYDAY citizens can use the water?

Hey, Gabby, can we see some of your work. I'm sure it would be good for a hoot. Maybe you missed the Board of Supes reference after a Tuesday. That would lead most people to believe it had something to do with a Tuesday Supes meeting. But I guessed you missed that.

Ms Humboldt wrote:

"I spent a good part of Monday helping Jeff Smith clean out the algae near Sunset Resort. With two of us in the water and Jeff's wife driving the boat we were able to clean out most of the algae from the cove."
Wow, thanks Jeff for helping out a RESORT owner clean up her property. What about helping clear the lake in areas where POOR or EVERYDAY citizens can use the water?

If I handed you a $100.00 bill would you conplain that it wasn't 2. At least someone is doing something instead of Biatchin!! get a life and clean up your own stretch of shorline if you have it.

should have been "complain and shoreline"

Hey Stinky Lake! What do you think Friends of Clear Lake have been trying to do for the past many years? Your thought is right on. Currently, a Nice resident who is a retired NASA Physicist is going through the many documents that have been generated concerning getting the lake dredged.

There is a dredging operation just waiting for the word to come to Lake County and start dredging but the holdup is the many government agencies who have stuck the feet in the way. From the county people, to the state people and the federal government, all have to be appeased before the permits will be issued.

If the residents of Lake County would band together, find out who needs to be pushed, and put pressure on these people, eventually your wishes will be granted.

Look up Friends of Clear Lake, support them as they are fighjting for you. If you don't help now, the lake will eventually fill up with the run off from the mountains, and disappear. There will be nothing left for your kids, or mine, to enjoy.

Enjoy the waves, enjoy the beauty while you have a lake. Soon you may not.

Nothing was done consistently all summer long, and now the tourism season, which did not exist this year due to the lake's conditions, is over. Many business owners will not have the revenue to see them through Fall and Winter. That Sunset Resort owner has had no patrons since June. Three months with no business is simply NO BUSINESS!!!

would you come to Lake County. It stinks and the local government will have their eye on you.

FLAKE COUNTY

I should mention that I own the house next to Sunset Resort. I helped Jeff because he was there to help me, without me asking. I have a 5 year old son who can't go in the water at his own house. Rather disappointing!

Jeff came out on Labor day with his wife to make a difference, I was impressed with how hard they both worked! My simple contribution was nothing in comparison to their efforts. Let's support Jeff and work together for a solution.

"Turk: Hey, Gabby, can we see some of your work. I'm sure it would be good for a hoot. "

Yeah, i'll try and write something for you guys on my spare time for free when i'm not busy taking 22 units in college. Would you like me to come to your house and do your dishes too?

When i do write, it's posted at LCNEWS.COM

Ben Andrews wrote:

I should mention that I own the house next to Sunset Resort. I helped Jeff because he was there to help me, without me asking. I have a 5 year old son who can't go in the water at his own house. Rather disappointing!
Jeff came out on Labor day with his wife to make a difference, I was impressed with how hard they both worked! My simple contribution was nothing in comparison to their efforts. Let's support Jeff and work together for a solution.

Ben, I live nowhere near you and really feel for the folks in the closed channels and Cache Creek outflow. I don't think any short term solutions would suffice.

My offer to help stands.

Locally here in Buckingham, I chew up the mats when the wind is offshore (sorry if it ends up at your door) on the East side, but particularly if I lived on the West shore, I'd be getting together with my friends and neighbors and ANY OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, and saying what can I do? It's all about stepping up and I don't expect a lot from a bunch of keypunching hide-behind-my-witty-pseudonym types, but here in these boards are some real folks that, just like me, want to make it better. You're doing the right thing and so is your supe. Don't worry about the need-to-get-a-life snipers.

Ms Humboldt wrote:

When i do write, it's posted at LCNEWS.COM

She meant
http://www.lakeconews.com/

good stuff. Scooped the daylights out of LCRB on the Oasis fire and Konocti.

How funny.

s c u m b a g is inappropriate, even when applied to the lurker using kid's names in his pseudoposts.

Also inappropriate is the competition's website, even though this is a 3rd party discussion list. Welcome to the Internet folks, it's how the church felt when Guttenburg started pumping out what EVER.

l a k e c o n e w s . c o m

And as Dr Jonnny fever once said "B O O G E R".

Hi Brad, thank you for the support. It sounds like we may have some people with a few ideas on how to deal with the algae.

Someone mentioned dredging. I had heard that we couldn't do that because of the mercury on the bottom of the lake. When I was helping Jeff the other day the water depth was only about 1 1/2 feet several hundred feet out and all of the water was lake spinach soup until the water got to about 3 feet. I think the dredging would be a great idea. How can we pursue that?