Here are some pics from Friday, October 23rd. The levee is plugged and most habitats are in place. The plan was to put down rip rap this week but now they're calling for more rain. If it ever dries out we'll install a bunch of pipes around the lake including a 60" aluminized arch pipe ($ ouch) on the far end to handle 100+ acres of watershed run off. Then they'll do the final road grading around the lake and be done. I'm almost ready to put fish in, finally!
Here's the tip of a new peninsula and a new island. Today they are putting a couple of huge sandstone rocks from my property on top of the island for kids' jumping pleasure.
From the levee here's a view of the peninsula and part of the island. To the right of the peninsula they are putting the rootball of a large red oak upside down as a fish habitat in about 5.5' of water.
The rootball. The stump side will be buried and pressed into the clay.
In this photo they are scraping a ledge into the face of the levee to handle the fabric and the rip rap.
