To the OP,I read your thread and another involving a HOA lake they wanted to dredge/restore.To be honest if it was my property and there wasn't a nosey NIMBY neighbor etc.I might consider doing a little at a time on my own............in other words I'd tread lightly while looking into the permit process
I'd like to be able to approach it that way and if I can get the discharge water filtered clean enough to not alert the river keepers, it won't be a problem. All I need to do is send some silty water downstream and set of the alarms. It wouldn't take long to have a bunch of people coming upstream to find the source of the silt and that wouldn't be good.
If I can't get real clean water, I'll wind up using a settling pit and pump it back into the lake.
-RFL
