Topic: Underwater railway tracks and submerged forest revealed by draining operation

[Alphabet Soup]

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

[Libertas]

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 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.

[Alphabet Soup]

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!).

[Libertas]

Isn't a recreation area by definition public property?

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

Smells like Obama, eh?  Bleeech!

[robins111]

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

Wear snowshoes though.

[AlanS]

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