[News From The Lake] Something to think about.

[paul@IndianLake]

Dam remediation is expensive, by the time Indian Lake Borough is done with the final phase of our project we will have spent every cent of the $7.5 million that we are allowed to borrow under the resolution that you passed. That is an awful lot of money for a community of this size. But what are/were the alternatives? The link to the following story in the Somerset Daily American details what very well might happen if "the commission" (a state agency!) can not come up with the money for Lake Somerset;

http://www.dailyamerican.com/news/somerset/da-ot-lake-somersets-future-clouded-20110301,0,3756276.story

The spillway is just the last of the needed remediations that we had to do to our dam!
Yes this is expensive, but for us the alternative is unthinkable.

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Posted By paul@IndianLake to News From The Lake at 3/05/2011 02:40:00 PM