State Park Marina Construction Photos (and Eagle's Nest
Pictures)
Photos Taken November 3, 4 and 5, 2008
Contributed by Karl Steuk
The basin will ready for re-watering when the area of hard bedrock in the
new channel is removed this week by blasting. The dirt areas have been seeded and most areas show
new grass.
Construction on the new water tower south of the school house has been
started and will be completed in the spring.
The old channel had steel
walls all the way to the lake, and all the steel has been removed and
the concrete blocks have been taken out along the "old" north and south
channel break wall. This leaves some small rocks and dirt shown in the
picture south of the "new" channel. The old channel will be filled in
with the material from the coffer dam leaving a new shoreline and a
class 3 wetlands.
Wednesday evening the
contractor was seeding the area just north of My Aunt Irma's. The
mountain of dirt next to Irma's has been graded and remains. We expect
it will be used to fill in around My Aunt Irma's when the state takes
possession of the store next year.
Grading south of
Irma's was being completed Wednesday evening as darkness closed work for
the night. Most of the areas will be seeded by Thursday evening just in
time for the weekend rain.
Aerial View
You can see the old channel without the steel wall which was removed
Area to be blasted
Bedrock along the northeast basin wall in (left of center) next to the marsh is to be blasted out
Last of old channel steel wall is to be removed today
Coffer dam to be removed after re-watering process begins
Water will start to be siphoned/pumped in soon after blasting is complete and rock is removed from north basin area.
Bedrock to be removed
Bottom of channel showing hard bedrock down the center with a thin covering of clay and mud
Storage building relocated near the new water tower south of school house from Roesch property
New water tower foundation behind the school house