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http://www.albertleatribune.com/2014...in-park

So $15 million isn't enough to dredge? The Tribune should do another story and get some clarification on his earlier statements.

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I now know that dredging the lakes is nothing but a money making scam..

Tons of chemicals from farmers, along with ton's of tree leaves going down city storm drains every year will always become scum and scam..

I grew up with a dredge at work on Albert Lea Lake in the 60's and it is still a swamp..

Open the dams and send our chit downstream.. Then put up new dams.. So simple..
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Can we drain the lakes and then bulldoze the crap into piles to be hauled off? Maddog? Liberal?
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Can we drain the lakes and then bulldoze the crap into piles to be hauled off? Maddog? Liberal?

You could probably drain it, from what I've found out about the lake is that it's only averaging 3.5 ft deep and has 20" of silt. Moving that much material would take an armada of trucks and quite a chunk of time. The run off would go the way of the Shell Rock and would most likely cause a lot of flooding down stream.
It might be a better idea to forget dredging or any other hair-brained idea and drag a boat up north for your aquatic recreation and not mess with that glorified mud hole.

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Can we drain the lakes and then bulldoze the crap into piles to be hauled off? Maddog? Liberal?

Or push it into piles in selected locations to form islands.  Don't think that wasn't thought of as one possible scenario.  They could also lower Albert Lea Lake to the point where the marshes east of the state park dried up and remove and sell the gravel in that area.  

Ask some of the old timers about that area.

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Thanks Maddog.. This suck a and blow dredge machine should be called the Pollock machine.. :D  

Drain the lakes and call in Ulland Brothers and Sorenson Brothers.. One summer and both lakes would be like new..

The new islands created would be great for wildlife..

They complicate things that are so simple.. I would call it Legalized theft.. :crazy:
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Island made from silt??? :(

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I didn't say either of these two options werebetter or feasible.  I was just commenting on your post
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 I know the island option was at least looked at in the early stages of the SRRWD.  Back when Sorenson, Miller and Ken Nelson originated the board.  They weren't too much for buddies bad then.  :p

I still remember back around 2006 at a county board meeting I spoke during the public comments and Ken Nelson called me a malcontent.  :D   You know, years later Ken and I got to be friends.  Ken is a hell of a smart man.  You know he designed and drafted the best design for a dam at the Shellrock.

Note his comment at the 1:26 mark about the county board.

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I was told that there is not enough drop in elevation in the lake to do the "Drain the Lake".  I had thought it was the best idea until that bit of logic was presented.

After all the plotting and planning, how can they still not know what is needed?

How could they present an incomplete picture to the state for funding?

How could they make an emergency decision to buy a dredge that was to small to do the job?

The only thing they were really sure of is that they needed to extend The Tax for The Lake.  

Those that have been at the trough from the begining need to go.

There seems to be too much money being trickled away.

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, along with ton's of tree leaves going down city storm drains every year will always become scum and scam..

I know the Cities of Kato and N. Kato purchased leaf sucking machines for that very reason.
Residents of both towns can rake their leaves to the edge of the yard and the city will come by and suck up all the leaves for "free" (in quotes because we all know there is a small cost added to property taxes to cover this.  Turn into compost later that residents can also take for free.  
They will do this up until the first significant snow fall. They did the cost analysis on the cost of the machines and manpower to do this for a few weeks each fall, vs what it cost to clean out the sewers and repair work and as I recall it was pretty much a wash if not more in favor of purchasing the equipment.  Of course we have a much larger  tax base to spread the cost, not sure how economically feasible it would be for good ole AL.

Regarding the drain and truck away the silt, the city of N. Kato did that to Spring Lake Park about 8 years ago.  It is a small lake, maybe 2-3 surface acres, they did it over two years working all summer.  To do that to a lake the size of AL would be an enormous

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