Lake Depth Improvement Sub-Committee – Phase 1 Report
Phase 1 Report:
Preliminary Dredging Meetings
- May
- Grand Lake St. Marys: Shallow water State Lake in western Ohio currently undergoing a massive hydraulic dredging operation. Started in 1964.
- Lake Lakengren: Private lake association in western Ohio currently undergoing a mechanical dredging operation. Met during OLCA (Ohio Lake Communities Association) conference.
- June
- Army Corp of Engineers: Met to learn which permits would be required for dredging.
- EPA: Met to discuss dredging.
- ODNR: Met to discuss dredging.
- Roaming Shores Village: Met to acquire permits for Dredge Material Disposal Site.
- July
- Chagrin Valley Engineers: Designers for Dredge Material Disposal Site.
- Ashtabula County Water & Soil Dept.: Met to learn rules regarding settlement ponds and Dredge Material Disposal Site.
- August
- EnviroScience: Performed depth study for dredging locations. Will use information from 2009 study which cost over $20,000 to perform.
- Chagrin Valley Engineers: Plans finalized for Dredge Material Disposal Site.
- ODNR: Registered for permission to build Dredge Material Disposal Site.
- September
- ODNR: Paid for permits.
This Dredging project will not increase Dues & Assessments any further. The project can completed without the need to take out a loan from the bank.
Phase 2 report will be in the December Edition of the Shores News.
Lake Depth Improvement Sub-Committee Meeting Minutes – June 18, 2013
Members present include Ron Morris, John Ball, Jim Schwartz, Mike Ritter, and Chairman Ed Baitt.
Meeting called to order at 7:30PM at the RRA Clubhouse.
Items discussed:
1. Need to obtain a mechanical scoop-dredging rig similar in design to the one currently used at Lake Lakengren. The rig should be owned by the RRA since the ability to lower the lake level via a siphon spillway is still at least a year or more off and it will be used over the equipment’s lifetime. Use of this rig does not require the lake level to be lowered so dredging can begin as soon as it is in place. Other equipment can be used when the lake level can be controlled. The dredging rig would include 2 backhoes, 1 truck, 3 hopper barges, and 1 spud barge and would cost an estimated $200,000. Our own workboat can be used but will need a motor upgrade to a 60hp 4-stroke Mercury outboard motor. A bid was received and reviewed from B&R Construction, Inc. for building the spud barge.
2. The committee intends to dredge only the channel of each cove to allow property owners the ability they once had to boat to the main body of water. Accordingly, the committee will scoop out sediment from the channel near the back of several coves to learn how long it would take for the sediment to return. This may give us an idea of how often the coves channel would need to be dredged. RL50 and RL54 will be sample dredged first.
Meeting was adjourned at 9:15PM
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