As per the ad in this week's The Chronicle of Grand Lake on page A7 and if you also think lowering the lake to 741 before Labor Day is stupid, you can send an email of your support to oppose this practice to "[email protected]".

The following is the link to the paper: http://www.grand-chronicle.com/

theres a half-ass explanation on www.grda.com front page explaning the rule-curve and trying to meet the elevation averages by keeping it high in the summer and low in the fall. But to what benefit? The millet seeding idea was a flop and elevation doesnt affect energy production..Plus (this coming from someone in the water industry) raising the water back up after months of low elevations introduces MUCH MUCH more organics into the lake thereby increasing the flourishing algae bloom thats taken over..

AND they dont even have the money this year to sow the Millet!
WTF!!

Why didn't they just file for a waiver from the FERC and Army Corp of Engineers this year? Lowering the lake to 741 for absolutely no reason doesn't make any sense to me. I can understand dropping it to 742, but 741 for a month and a half to plant a seed that dies off anyway and was never a native grass??? Who comes up with this stuff?

Well, the FERC is about 4 years behind on paperwork and the CORPS have nothing to do with Grand, its a GRDA lake, not a COE lake..They are saying it has nothing to do with Millet anymore. That its strictly because of an agreed "average elevation". To keep it good and deep during the summer and keep all the dock owners swimming, they have to lower it (spiked down) in fall to meet the "average" using the rule curve.

But what needs to happen is the lake needs to be DROPPED early in the spring in anticipation of the floods. Instead of the weekend of a HUGE holiday... If they were to spike it low to 741 in february and march and let it fill back up, they wouldnt need to lower it again until the end of october and would still meet the average elevation for the year..

That will never happen... because, it makes way too much since.

Exactally. Glad i am in a nice deep cove.

The only reason I brought up the Corp of Engineers is because FERC uses them for recommendations or something like that. The average elevations were set based on the millet planting schedule and the flood problems in Miami and surrounding areas in 1995. You are right if they would drop it either later in the year and let it fill back before May it would make a lot more sense. I am fortunate to be in deep enough waters but have some friends below Elk river who can't even launch a pontoon right now no less something with water draw. Just glad I have more than one option to launch being in Gray's Hollow.

GRDA is about making money.

No rain this year caused the lake to be low. I would rather had it low than the 756 two years ago on July fourth weekend with telephone poles floating by.

Agreed with masher on that one.. We pulled up to something white floating in the water because it looked like a piece of plywood. When we got up next to it, we realized it was no piece of plywood, it was a f'in chest style deep freezer. It was still locked and air tight so it must have floated off someones porch and out into the lake..
I cant IMAGINE smokin a deep freezer at 80mph.. bye bye bravos..