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Moparman 
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Posted on: Sep. 24 2012,5:27 pm |
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Umm.... Yes that's exactly how drainage works! Pull the plug in the bottom. By no means does the soil profile need to saturated for the tile to be flowing. If it was you would have what these "lakes" we're meant to be, swamps. It's just basic soil science that subsurface drainage increases the soils water holding capacity thereby greatly reducing surface runoff erosion.
Besides acres of very productive farmland being used to feed the world is far more important than some useless slough or someones precious "lake view".
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hairhertz
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Posted on: Sep. 24 2012,5:33 pm |
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Wasn't there a plan to build islands in AL Lake from dredged material? Something about the heavy metals and the prohibitive cost of dumping the material on land?
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danbelshan
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Posted on: Sep. 24 2012,9:18 pm |
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The Good News:
Dredge was purchased . Was told it saved about $700,000 from purchasing new.
I also suggested to buy a dredge. I have relatives in Fairmont and boated on the chain of lakes . Fairmont owned a dredge for years and deepened their lakes at a low cost. Dredge was publicly owned.
The Bad News. The Minnesota DNR can take two years to give a permit to allow dredging.
The Solution:
Anyone for seceding from MN and becoming the northern most lake in Iowa?
When were done with the dredge we could turn it into a Riverboat Casino!!!
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Pretzel Logic
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Posted on: Oct. 02 2012,9:18 am |
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HH, that was the plan we were told back in the 90's. To knock out the dam and let the lake drain out thru a channel and then push the sediment up into islands. The problem it turned out is there is not enough drop in the lake and the outlet for the water to run down hill. So it would not dry out enough to get heavy equipment in to make the islands, as it was explained to me. We would need to make the river deeper.
Moparman, you still kinda skirted the silt issue in your in your example. How can we keep it from happening again? The silt I mean. 
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pepi-lapew
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Posted on: Oct. 02 2012,10:16 am |
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The cheapest cost is to blow the dam and turn albert lea lake back to the stream it was? salution solved 
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Pretzel Logic
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Posted on: Oct. 02 2012,2:47 pm |
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The stream would be Fountain Lake
www.cityofalbertlea.org/about-albert-lea/history
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Pretzel Logic
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Posted on: Oct. 04 2012,10:54 am |
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^^
The siltation.
When did mother nature start driving D 8 cats and burying plastic pipe?
I really figured you for a better answer.
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