Lake drawdown

For your information, following is a copy of an email received this AM. Despite a few hiccups, we are proceeding with the 3 foot drawdown as previously advised. This should give you a better idea of timing.

"FYI commencing this Friday, March 26, Indian Lake will open their valve to drop the lake 3 feet. This is being done as requested by DEP so we can measure discharges from the lake at a lower water level. Please note, this is not a safety problem. Frankly, with the snow melt and rainfall that occurred on the weekend of March 13, the lake filled much faster than we wanted. The plan was to bring the lake back up slowly so we could monitor the flows/water levels in the flumes and piezometers as the lake filled.

Depending on the weather, it may take up two weeks to drop Indian Lake the 3 feet DEP is requesting. The lake will then be held at that level for 1 week, after which the lake will be refilled.

The discharge from Indian lake will create a raise in the pool level of Lake Stonycreek – (note: in the fall when Indian Lake lowered, the raise in Lake Stonycreek was about 1 foot). CME will be monitoring both the drop in Indian Lake and the level in Lake Stonycreek. If anyone sees a problem, please notify me. Thanks."

The above from Sean Isgan, President of CME, the Borough's Engineering Consultants. A big thanks to Sean and Theresa, our Borough Manager, for all they did to facilitate this.