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Happy 30Th Anniversary Boone Lake Association! Serving Boone Lake Since 1983 HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY BOONE LAKE ASSOCIATION! SERVING BOONE LAKE SINCE 1983 Boone Lake Association is celebrating 30 years of working to improve the water quality and safety of Boone Lake. The picture to the left is an iconic picture of the shape that Boone Lake was in during the early eighties. Boone Lake Association was formed in 1983 and with the support of its members, has made vast improvements in the condition of the lake. As everyone on the lake knows, it is a continuous fight to keep the litter and wood debris out of the lake. BLA would like to thank all our members, past and present, along with our business and government partners. The picture below represents the Boone Lake we have all come to love and enjoy! Boone Lake association WATCHinG tHe WATERs P.o. Box 111 Piney Flats, tn 37686 april 2013 www.boonelakeassociation.org BOARD AND COMMITTEE HAPPENINGS BLA BUDGET As of December 31st 2012, BLA’s three accounts totaled $27,955. Of this, the Business Checking account balance was $14,297 (which included a $2,000 designated grant to Johnson City), the Capital Savings account balance was $10,774, and the Boone Lake Cleanup Day account balance was $2,884. Due to major expenses in the first 3 months of 2013, the Capital Savings account is now close to being depleted. This fund was used to purchase a new 60hp motor, a new storage facility located at Boone Lake Marina, new signage at the marinas and ramps, replacement of equipment stolen from a BLA boat, and upgraded containment barriers at our retention sites around the lake. The Capital Savings account is replenished gradually as Dues and Donations are received. 7.5% of every deposit is allocated to this account. MEMBERSHIP NEWS Our membership at the end of 2012 stood at 582, 48 shy of the totals reached in 2010 and 2011. Thank you to the 400+ members who have already submitted dues for 2013. Additional dues reminders will be sent out over the next few months. If you have not mailed in your dues, please do so as soon as possible. BLA believes that increasing our membership is vital not only for funding our activities, but also increasing water quality awareness around our lake. There is power in numbers. All Boone Lake Residents (2,000+) should be members of BLA. Encourage your friends and neighbors to join us in the fight to keep Boone Lake clean and beautiful. WATER QUALITY The Water Quality Committee meets in April to discuss water collection testing sites around the lake for the summer of 2013. We will also discuss additional activities that the Water Quality Committee might pursue to maintain our good water quality for everyone who uses the lake. If you are interested in joining the committee or taking water samples during the summer, call Ann Harrison at 423-323-3887. LAKE CLEANUP OPERATIONS The BLA crew and Lake Operations Committee have been extremely busy this winter. See article on page 7 for details. BOONE LAKE ASSOCIATION is now on FACEBOOK Today’s young people and not so young people enjoy using Facebook to connect with family, friends and businesses. Boone Lake Association has created a Facebook page to connect with existing members and hopefully interest some new people in becoming members. We will be posting pictures, stories and events often, so please visit our page at www.facebook.com/BooneLakeAssociation and “Like” our page to follow us and see what Boone Lake Association is doing for Boone Lake. Everyone is welcome to post pictures and stories related to Boone Lake type activities, whether it be lake cleanup projects, fun in your boat, catching that big fish, or a pretty sunset on Boone Lake. We would like to hear from you! DATES TO REMEMBER Board Meetings – 1st Tuesday of each month – April 2, May 7, June 4, July 2 – Winged Deer Park Conference Room 7:00pm Members Welcome! Boone Lake Cleanup Day – Saturday April 27, 2013 Questions for BLA – [email protected] JANUARY FLOODIN G Jay Wise Monday January 14, 2013, the forecast was not good for Boone Lake and the surrounding region. The National Weather Service was predicting heavy rain and issued an area flood watch. The stationary front stalled, producing non-stop heavy rainfall across our region that lasted for several days. The January flood raised water levels in Boone Lake, South Holston Lake and Watauga Lake approximately 15 feet in just a few days. We were fortunate this rain system hit in January while the lake levels were down so there was somewhere for all this rain water to go. TVA did a great job managing the lake levels. However, with over 650 tributaries feeding into Boone Lake, most reaching near flood stage, there was a lot of trash, debris and logs delivered to Boone Lake on both the Watauga and South Holston sides of the lake. The region received more than five inches of rain in a 3 day period followed by several inches of snow. At Bristol Motor Speedway and the surrounding area rainwater flooded parking lots. These floodwaters carried trash into Beaver Creek, ending up in Boone Lake near Davis Boat Dock. Boone Lake Association with the help of labor provided by Sullivan County cleaned up the area to remove much of the trash and prevent it from reaching Boone Lake. With the water rising and snow on the ground, one of our crewmembers went to check on the BLA pontoon cleanup boat to discover it had been robbed and vandalized. Robbers broke into a locked tool box with a logging chain securing it with padlocks. Two chainsaws, a backpack leaf blower and several gas cans including the gas tank for the boat motor along with the logging chain were taken. They also damaged some of the wiring for the boat’s lights. A police report was filed with the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Dept. If anyone saw anything or hears of any information that may help in the investigation please contact the Sheriff’s Dept. or Boone Lake Association. Like the old saying goes, “when it rains it pours”! Additional security steps have been put in place to hopefully prevent this from happening again. Boone Lake Association will be working to clean up lower parts of the Watauga River in an attempt to remove some of the trash before it reaches Boone Lake. This along with our 14th Annual Boone Lake Cleanup scheduled on Saturday April 27, 2013 will hopefully get our lake cleaned up so we can all enjoy a fun and safe summer. Cause And Effect BARRIER REPLACEMENT BLA worked this winter to replace the old styrofoam barriers at our containment areas. These barriers are used to contain logs and large debris in designated coves during the summer until the water goes down and the debris can be burned or removed during the winter. The new corrugated pipe barriers are environmentally friendly and are more visually attractive. Old styrofoam containment barriers New corrugated pipe barriers BLA Crew works to replace barriers 14 ANNUAL BOONE LAKE CLEANUP DAY SATURDAY, APRIL 27 Come join us for the official kickoff to 2013 Season on Boone Lake! It is our opportunity to clean up our lake in preparation for boating season. Saturday, April 27th from 9 A.M. until 3 P.M. volunteers will be at points all around Boone Lake handing out bags and gloves as needed to everyone who wants to help clean up our lake. Pick up stations will be located at: Boone Lake Marina Davis Boat Dock Lakeview Marina Jay’s Boat Dock Sonny’s Marina Rockingham Marina Ramp at Bluff City Ramp at 11E Spend as much or as little time as you can picking up litter and debris. Return the bags to the pick up stations by 3 P.M. to receive tickets good for Cash Prizes. The more you pick up, the better your chance to WIN! 4 P.M. at Winged Deer Park there will be a picnic for all the participants with FREE TEE SHIRTS, FREE FOOD and CASH PRIZES!!! Come join the FUN! The following article was submitted by one of our members. It About appeared in the October, 2012 Seaworthy magazine. Electric Shock Drowning Conscientious parents, who would never that was also reported to have “improper Circuit Interrupters (GFCIs) at marinas and imagine letting their children go boating without wiring.” An earlier test of 50 freshwater private docks. (Note that in Europe, GFCIs a life vest or ride in a car without securing their boats in the Portland, Oregon area by have been required at marinas for almost 30 seat belts, often have no qualms about letting Kevin Ritz, the nation’s foremost expert on years and ESD is no longer a concern.) Until a child jump off a dock into fresh water. What ESD, found that 13 boats—26 percent— such time as freshwater boats and docks are these parents don’t realize is that if the dock were leaking potentially lethal doses of safe—and that could be decades away—the has120-volt AC power, lethal amounts of electricity into the water. best defense is to never swim near docks with electricity could be finding their way into the energized 120-volt AC power. Signs should water from faulty wiring on the dock or a boat. How much electricity is lethal? AC current be posted warning children and parents to In a one week period this past July, four children flow of around 100 milliamps (mA) of AC STAY OUT OF THE WATER! The rule has and one young adult were killed in separate current will put the heart into fibrillation and to be enforced.
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