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	Name:	Pier Pressure -
	Subject:	I told you so...
	Date:	5/24/2007 4:57:39 PM

How about we leave these decisions to those with enough technical data to base the decision. Who has EVER seen Lake Martin flood? This is the only lake I have been on that has never flooded during a heavy spring rain season. Spring a couple years ago (in fact, two springs in a row) the Alabama river was well above flood stage. Cooters pond in Prattville had water so high that the fixed dock was unaccessible. The water was at least 10 feet above normal. The water was so high that houses on the Alabama River Toll road (between Montgomery and Prattville) we inaccessible. And the reason for all this downstream flooding? So that Lake Martin and Jordan would not creast.

It makes sense that in a drought if winter levels were not so low then situations would be better for summer months, but what happens if it is not a drought and we get multiple tropical storms? Would you rather not have use of a dock for a couple of seasons, or have to rebuild your first level because of flooding?

Buying property on a lake is an inherited risk. No one (even us weekenders) likes it... But, as stated, you can make something good of it. Go out on the sand/mud and pitch a tent. Go walking along this newly created shoreline, etc...