Lake Oswego Oregon, Day 114 of Lake Draw Down

I haven't posted for some time since routine dredging and pipe connection are going on.  In the last several days however, they have been building a road around the perimeter of the lake immediately in front of our house.  The crushed rock road has a rubber barrier under it to help prevent weeds from growing after the lake refills.  We didn't have a weed problem since the water is fairly deep off our dock, but it will really help those down the way from us.  Evidently this road allowed them to get heavy equipment to service several sewer connections down from us.

Lake Oswego Oregon, Day 77 of Lake Draw Down

Day 77 of the Draw Down.  They have torn down quite a bit of the damn. They plan to add gates to it to allow excess water out in a faster and more controlled way.













This photo was taken at day 58 at the Forest Hills easement.  At day 77 nothing has changed. Looks very "High and Dry."

Lake Oswego Oregon, Day 48 of Lake Draw Down

The picture shows Lake Oswego's concept of "the great beach cleanup."  Our beach is the land or "beach" created by the retreating water. The Lake Corp dropped off orange colored bags for lake property owners to collect garbage the somehow ends up on the lake bottom. Last Saturday was the day we were to fill up our bags and leave our bags on the beach.  Volunteers are supposed to come by and pick up the bags this week.  I'm sure that the orange bag idea came from Oregon State grads who are by far more environmentally conscientious than those other colleges (who will remain unnamed).

FYI the bags to the left would be under 15+ ft. of water where they currently are.

Chao
Jeff

Lake Oswego Oregon, Day 32 of Lake Draw Down

Day 32 of Lake Oswego draw down.  The first pic is of Spring Brook.  Normally this area looks like a lake and not a "spring."  With no water in the lake, it now looks like a muddy spring going past the Spring Brook Easement.

The second pic is the end of the new road that they are building in the main lake.  It ends right in the area of wear Spring Brook dumps all it's sediment.  They will be dredging this area and taking many many dump truck loads down this new road.  I'll try to find out where the spoils will be dumped.  Everyone is asking me.  **One fun fact,  that last time they dredged Lake Oswego, they filled in the quarry where now Bridgeport Shopping Center sits.

Lake Oswego Oregon, Day 26 of Lake Draw Down

The first pic is of a large tractor and a large excavating machine that are building a road down the middle of the lake past the lake side of our house.  The road will head over to Spring Brook where they plan to do some serious dredging since the "spring" or small creek has brought in a lot of silt.  They also have to finish some connections on some of the sewer pipes.

The second pic is of a "bubbler." I bet very few people have seen a bubbler of this size.  For those who haven't been been on the lake in the summer, there area many bubblers sprinkled around the lake (submerged of course !) that help improve the oxygen quality and help prevent algae growth.

Chao

Jeff

Lake Oswego Oregon, Day 20 of Lake Draw Down

Day 20 of the Lake Oswego Draw Down.  I really didn't believe we would have as much mud in front of our house/dock as has happened.  My estimate is that the lake is down 20-25 ft. at this point.  The first picture is looking Southwest from our house.  It shows stumps and exposed pipes that used to be under water.














The second pic is looking Southeast from our dock and shows the new "beach" that we have in front of our dock.



Chao

Jeff

Lake Oswego Oregon, Day 17 of Lake Draw Down

The first photo shows the 7 large pumps draining Lake Oswego.  They sound like Multnomah Falls in action.

The second photo is the channel entrance at the Blue Heron easement.

The final photo is the main lake and a runner out on the 36" pipe in the middle of the lake.  It kind makes me want to run out there and balance on the pipe.

Chao

Jeff