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Lake
Claiborne Scheduled for Minimal Drawdown Beginning Sept. 17
July
3, 2007
The Claiborne Parish
Watershed District Commission has requested a 2 to 3 foot drawdown
of Lake Claiborne beginning Sept. 17, 2007.
The purpose of this
drawdown is to allow the Watershed Commission to determine where
to locate, with GPS coordinates, permanent channel markers. The
drawdown will expose many of the numerous stumps that present
navigation hazards to boaters. It is the Watershed District’s
intent to install the channel markers before the summer of 2008.
The lake will be lowered
3 to 4 inches per day until it reaches the target level of 3 feet
below normal pool stage. This level will be maintained while the
stumps are located and a channel is identified, a process which
should take approximately two weeks.
Once the Watershed
Commission obtains GPS coordinates, the gates will be closed and
the lake allowed to refill.
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