Ok, HERE WE GO!!!
GF LakeChair and I are off to Houghton Lake for the Michigan Lakes & Streams Conference, with Boys of Summer T-Shirts in tow.....
The Good News is: The State Senator I have been informing since 2004 of our problems, sent me an e-mail and is very interested in moving our project forward, to get the S. Blvd Drain divereted, and to get storm drain cleaning systems put in our drains!!!! Seems our salinty testing shows over 550 ppb of salt in our lake, while the lake next door (where he lives) only has 48 ppb. The gov. has just released 234 million in stimulus money for WATERSHED IMPROVEMENTS.........
The Bad News is: They want me to tell them how much this will cost. Hope the engineer that was there last year is there this year and can throw some numbers on the drains, we are taking detailed maps of our lake.
The Boys will be here to wish us off before we go and treat our lake as it will be 80 this weekend, and it looks like crap from all the massive rains we have had.
We are going one day early to meet the guys from the DNR conference, as with budget cuts the MDEQ and DNR will be merging some operations in the future. Before the MDEQ came about, the DNR took care of everything.
Hope everyone is enjoying their ponds and fish coming alive...LET THE PARTY BEGIN!
