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
We need some volunteers with four-wheel drive trucks to help at the club in the face of rising flood waters. Please meet us at the club asap.
POSTED 9:54 AM, SUNDAY
Level is going to continue another 2 feet to about 528. Ray Roberts gate is 50% open and Denton creek is still rising, expecting to crest at 14′ (which is about 4′ above flood stage).
Tim Johnson
Thanks to the following members for the images:
Courtesy of Kristin Lyon
Courtesy of Kristin Lyon
Courtesy of Suzanne Glorioso
Courtesy of Suzanne Glorioso
Courtesy of Suzanne Glorioso
Dock 5 is finished, toast, done for, hasta la vista, as in: we need to get it unloaded STAT.
The mud poles are holding it okay at the moment, but more of the welds are broken down through the spine. We stabilized it some yesterday by removing the front portion and securing it against the seawall. Previously, it was swinging back and forth into boats boats on Dock 4 (mostly mine) and boats on Dock 6. We also tied anchors to it to help hold it in place, but time is limited. We need to unload the dock boxes and the 8 boat lifts from the dock, as well as get as many of those boats onto their trailers or put them on mooring balls.
To help with the removal of the boat lifts on Dock 5, we will be out there several times thru the middle of December with a portable generator to provide temporary power, so that the slip owner can get their lifts raised and removed. We need to try to finish this by December 12th or 19th at the very latest.
We also recovered the gang planks on pseudo Dock 1, and Dock 5. There is some additional work to do on those, but I’ll take care of it after the Circuit Stop at Canyon Lake.
Power will only be available on Dock 6 until after the new docks are in. The power cable on pseudo Dock 1 has been damaged and is no longer safe to use.
Fleet 163 survived fairly well, with the exception of Lady Outlaw. She is the J/24 that appeared several times on WFAA. The boat is back on the trailer, but has a broken rudder (easy to replace) and needs some repair on the inside lazarettes.
When the lake rises another foot or so, it will probably be time to start removing trash cans, picnic tables, etc. from the lower area in front of the docks.
I would also strongly recommend that Dock 4 slip owners start getting their dock boxes unloaded and removed from the docks.
Thanks,
Tim
Images courtesy of Tim Johnson, Harbor Master
Tim J and I got to club in morning darkness. We made an “executive decision” to get a crane and luckily Davis had one. The crane arrived at 9:30 and left at 3:00. Lifted 10 or 11 boats and got them to safety with no issue. Thanks to all volunteers, especially Tim Kraft for hooking boats and directing crane efficiently.National Weather Service says EF1 tornado came through us.
From the National Weather Service Fort Worth office:
- Dock 5 had again broken free and but has now been secured.
- Gas lines going to the outdoor grills are broken. No one should try to use them.
Check back here for more updates….
John Lusk asked us to share that the leadership ordered a crane early this morning. As of around 9:30 am, the crane operator and several club members were working together to start pulling boats apart.
Please contact Tim Johnson, John Lusk, or David Patterson with questions.
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