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	Name:	Osms -
	Subject:	Should insurance companies pay for clean-up.
	Date:	5/12/2011 12:51:58 PM

We're beginning to learn more about the clean up situation and it's not pretty. Alabama Power announced last week on their website that they were receiving bids for the heavy cleanup and would begin work shortly at Henry Neely Lake and Lake Martin. Then about Thursday of last week the tune changed; APCo pulled down the announcement and fell silent--no clean up initiated. We have determined that APCo found out that FERC was paying to clean up Guntersville Lake, a government lake, and now APCo appears to be willing to sit on the stump and wait on government assistance. Meanwhile the debris is spreading around the lake and increasing chances of ruining the economy of three counties this summer. We have heard ADECA has been tasked to figure out a way to get FEMA to pay 75% of the clean up costs, and the state is broke and doesn't want to pay the other 25%. So here we sit.

Seems the boats and cars are being removed by the insurance companies--remember they have serial numbers and can be traced. Houses and general debris can't be traced to a certain owner; the insurance companies are probably going to hide behind that fact and not pay--that goes for debris on land as well as in the water. Kisma has an interesting concept--for the next storm--not sure it would work for this storm.

The question we have asked and no one, so far, has been able to answer is: Is APCo really responsible to clean up this lake? They claim it's a "public lake", but they own the bottom of the lake, except the river bottom, and they seem to have the ultimate say on what dock you can build, so in my mind they own the lake. We're digging, trying to find out some facts and will share any hard information we get.