Dredging on upper Taneycomo

[Phil Lilley]

Guys- Mike Biggs is over minimum flow. Lee Schoonover is the person you need to email for the dredging.

My mistake. Resend your emails to Lee. Sorry. Mike will be confused!

lee.a.schoonover@usace.army.mil

[Gavin]

Not sure if its good or bad. In stream gravel mining is always bad, but I'm really not opposed to removing gravel & other sediments from a man made lake.

In a stream gravel and other sediments move down a river like there on a big conveyor belt. If you put up a dam and create a lake the natural flow of sediments is blocked and those sediments eventually fill up the lake. Removing the dam and restoring the natural flow would be preferable, but if your going to keep the lake, your gonna have to dredge the sediments out from time to time. Cheers.

[Phil Lilley]

"time to time" would be a ten year permit. The only replenishment would be from Short and Cooper Creeks, which if you looked closely at either "creek" there are runoff only and there's not much gravel in them. It's all been washed out already. So whatever gravel they take out, it's gone. What will replenish will be silt. I'm not arguing your point about lakes-- I tend to agree. But this is alittle different.

My point would be it is irreversible. Any question about it hurting the lake? Error on the side of precaution.

[Wayne SW/MO]

One of the things I wanted to point out was that Table Rock dam protects that portion of the lake and because of that, any damage done would most likely be permanent. Because the area is enhanced to mitigate damage from the dams, it needs an extraordinary amount of protection.

[Gavin]

Phil thanks for the information. I know very little about that area of the lake and from what youve said it doesnt sound like a good deal. Will send letter in opposition.

Gavin

[catman70]

Two suggestions:

I image the scope of Branson's tax base is small compared to that of Taney County who probably stands to loose more revene should the fishery be hurt and result in decreased tourism. Secondly, players such as Bass Pro and even Wil Fisher may be interested to know that a damaged fishery could hurt sales. Can and will key them in myself, but thought some on this forum may have a larger voice with the aforementioned entities and others with similar interests.

[Champ]

mailto:GregPyron@krzk.com

News tips can be emailed to Greg Pyron. Maybe with enough tips on these types of issues, the local media will report them more.

I'm Sure Branson Daily News has a tip line.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I image the scope of Branson's tax base is small compared to that of Taney County who probably stands to loose more revene should the fishery be hurt and result in decreased tourism.

No, the Branson population, most of the year, dwarfs the remainder of Taney County. I'm just not sure the powers that be there regard the fishery as that important. There was a time when I believe Branson would be all over this and leading the charge, but that doesn't seem to be the case now.

[stone9-7=2]

Although i dont fish taney i am still aginst dredging & sent my email today

hope it will help.

9-7=2

[Tightline]

Its time to stick together and take 5 minutes to send an email against the dredging.I would hope that we would do this for any of our lakes and streams.Out of staters need to weigh in on this also,they will notice, the tourism thing is a BIG factor.Why do they need gravel any more?There are enough quarrys in the area that man made gravel is cheap.Also put your name and address on the emails.