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Name:	Firefighter -	Reply
Subject:	Lake Dredging
Date:	12/24/2012 2:47:02 PM

I need some suggestions. The lake area by my home is slowing filling in from a stream that keeps depositing dirt into the lake. I have requested approval from Alabama Power to dredge the deposited dirt from the lake and am told that no dredging can be done for environmental reasons. When I point to all the neighbors lake fronts that have been dredged I am told that they did it so it is OK but no new dredging can be done. It's like they are holding their hand out for something. Question: Is there any Alabama Power guideline for this activity or anyone that I can appeal my case to? Thanks for your inputs.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Lake Dredging
Date:	12/24/2012 3:13:08 PM

Something must have changed because the rule used to be that any backfill for a newly built seawall HAD to come from the lake bottom.

Name:	Aardvark -	Reply
Subject:	Lake Dredging
Date:	12/25/2012 5:17:11 PM

That is why I wish that APCo would occasionally lower the lake more than 10 feet for winter pool. Some good winter rains would wash much of that silt into deeper water and help out people in the backs of sloughs and creeks. It would make some new creek channels that would be good places to fish, too.

Name:	itisd -	Reply
Subject:	This will tick you off
Date:	12/26/2012 8:39:02 PM

One of my neighbors dredged out 18 dumptruck loads just two years ago. These were 18 cubic yard dump beds. The majority of this was hauled to a point on Hwy 63 .

How did he get approval and you didn't. He just wanted more water depth at end of his pier and it was allowed. There was no new seawall and no back filling.

Name:	Aardvark -	Reply
Subject:	Lake Dredging
Date:	12/27/2012 2:23:35 PM

Another reason I would like to see a big drawdown: back in '07 I saw some big rocks between the 480 and 475 levels that would be very useful in shoring up our seawalls, but a job change meant that I couldn't get to the lake at all until after the rains started again. I want those rocks!

Name:	John C -	Reply
Subject:	Lake Dredging
Date:	12/27/2012 6:17:57 PM

I am certainly no expert but I do know that "dredge" is definitely a huge dirty word. It may be semantics to you and I, but every time I have used that word when talking to APco they quickly correct me. I would try to rewrite the proposal and would focus on the unnatural deposit of silt that is coming into the lake from above 490, that you are merely trying to correct the fouling of the lake. I think you would have a lot better chance getting that approved. Then again, you might get the same "no." But I am sure that if you sling around the D word, it will get rejected.

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	I got one
Date:	12/28/2012 10:22:33 AM

Back in 03 or 04 I got a permit to remove (dredge) in front of my pier. They may have stopped it completely since then I'm not sure. Mine was in conjunction with a new pier also so maybe that made the difference. I was told back thin I would never get permission but did without any hassle at all.

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