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Title: Underwater railway tracks and submerged forest revealed by draining operation
Post by: Alphabet Soup on April 02, 2015, 01:00:35 PM

This is a low-level piece - no stress, no anxiety, no agenda. It's just a look at a lake in my neighborhood. Around the turn of the last century a power company built a hydro-electric dam. They utilized this finger lake as the reservoir, augmenting its capacity by adding berms.

Each fall they lower the level of the lake by about two and a half feet and then allow it to naturally refill in the spring. For some reason they drained it this past winter and in doing so have revealed a lake bottom not seen in generations.

Enjoy: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3020286/Underwater-railway-tracks-submerged-forest-revealed-draining-operation-100-year-old-Washington-reservoir.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3020286/Underwater-railway-tracks-submerged-forest-revealed-draining-operation-100-year-old-Washington-reservoir.html)

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/31/20/272C1A3500000578-0-image-a-75_1427829848969.jpg)

Title: Re: Underwater railway tracks and submerged forest revealed by draining operation
Post by: Libertas on April 03, 2015, 07:02:29 AM

Hey that's pretty cool.  Wonder if you ran down there with a metal detector anyting of interest could be found.  Sounds like time is short though, as they say re-fill to recreational levels will be done by Memorial Day.

I might have answered some of my questions, the pics here (http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Drained-Lake-Tapps-exposes-underwater-forests-6159822.php#photo-7716985) show an old boat motor, what looks like a Sammy Hagar cassette tape, an old tire that made a perfect ringer around and old tree stump, a bunch of latter day crap...people sure do litter a lot!

Nice looking country though.  Will probably stay that way too as long as another volcano doesn't pop off.

Title: Re: Underwater railway tracks and submerged forest revealed by draining operation
Post by: Alphabet Soup on April 03, 2015, 10:09:28 AM

They are actively chasing souvenir hunters off the lake (bottom) and threatening with (of all things) trespassing. It is a surprisingly treacherous mud bog (and it smells!).

Title: Re: Underwater railway tracks and submerged forest revealed by draining operation
Post by: Libertas on April 03, 2015, 10:18:51 AM

Isn't a recreation area by definition public property?

Oh, sorry...there I go thinking like a traditional American again!   ::facepalm::

Smells like Obama, eh?  Bleeech!

Title: Re: Underwater railway tracks and submerged forest revealed by draining operation
Post by: robins111 on April 03, 2015, 12:55:33 PM

looks like a great place to go out with a metal detector.

Wear snowshoes though.

Title: Re: Underwater railway tracks and submerged forest revealed by draining operation
Post by: AlanS on April 04, 2015, 08:27:42 PM

Neat. I'd be down there on foot with a hand held GPS marking fishing spots.