Great news! According to David Patterson, we will see dock construction starting on Monday, January 4, 2016. David says Dock 1 will take about a week to complete. Dock 2 follows and will also take about a week. Apparently Dock 3 will take a week and a half.
MCI will install Docks 4 & 5 near the end of March.
We plan on posting regular updates and images of the construction. If you have images or reports to share, please send them along!
We need volunteers to move members around the harbor for boat checks.
Choose from one of these two-hour slots:
- Tues 9-11 am
- Tues 3-5 pm
- Wed 9-11 am
- Wed 3-5 pm
- Thur 9-11 am
- Thur 3-5 pm
Please contact John Lusk to sign up.
Thank you!
Looking for some light reading for your leisurely weekend?
“Even before last spring’s rains, the Lewisville Dam was listed by the Corps as the eighth-most-hazardous in the country. Recent rains have made it worse, the Corps says.
The dam is so unstable now that the Fort Worth District is considering asking Corps headquarters to upgrade its risk classification to the highest: “critically near failure” — that is, “almost certain to fail under normal operations … within a few years without intervention,” according to a Corps document.
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Only 34 miles upstream from Dallas, the Lewisville Dam holds back 2 million acre-feet, or 2.5 billion tons, of water when the lake is full. If the dam failed, the magnitude of all that water unleashed from Lake Lewisville down the Trinity River would dwarf the worst dam disaster in American history.”
— George Getschow
Special Contributor to the Dallas Morning News
Read the full article here: http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2015/lewisville-dam/
Photo from Dallas Morning News Photographer Nathan Hunsinger
From our friends at the National Weather Service:
“Two rounds of storms expected across North and Central Texas Saturday through Saturday Night. The main threat associated with the first round of storms is heavy rainfall and flooding. The main threat associated with the second round of storms is damaging winds.”
From our friends at the National Weather Service
Lake Lewisville remains high after recent rains.
Lake Level: 529.97′
Feet above Conservation Pool: 7.97′
Feet over Flood Pool: -2.03′
Corps is releasing 6,366 cubic feet per second
———Water levels are stable and weather is good.Attn: all dock 5 owners /usersNow is the time to move your boat, hoist or dockbox!“it don’t get no better ‘n this”——–Looking good for boat checks on Sat all day and also Friday afternoon. Bring handheld VHF radio set to channel 69 if you have one. Call or just look around for boat help.————John Lusk
MDI has provided an eight-page set of plans for our new docks! They include a diagram of each new dock, details on the slips, and anchorage details. Click here to see the full PDF.
Lake Lewisville remains 8.37 feet above conservation pool, but still 1.67 under the flood pool. For the moment, the water is still rising, albeit slowly.
Attention all boat owners —
North Texas received more than 10 inches of rain in the last 5 days.
The lake is up 7.5 feet from last week and may go up some more. Many boats in the harbor and on shore are holding rainwater and/or leakage from the lake.
YOU are responsible for pumping or removing the water, maintaining bilge pumps, checking dock lines, etc for your boat(s).
If the club employees or volunteers must pump out a boat or reset the dock lines, there WILL be charges added to your monthly bill. The details are covered in the Club Rules. The charges escalate with multiple pump-outs.
Questions can be directed to John Lusk, only if necessary. Ferry boat access to the docks 4 and 5 is limited and needs to be pre-scheduled for afternoons.
Water Levels from January 1 to December 1, 2015
Water Levels in November, 2015
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