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	Name:	turnipgreen -
	Subject:	Still pumping
	Date:	2/27/2009 5:12:02 PM

I avoid posting on here as much as I can, there just doesn't seem to be anything useful, only one side complaining about the low water, and one side picking an argument for fun. However the title of this post was "still pumping", this is in February, and the water level is way above the curve. Please tell me how in the world that can be interpreted as anything but a complaint for no reason. If you have a dock, then you may have had to adjust cables when the water got up to 515, I did. My dock is attached higher than most, but even so if the water had gotten up another foot or so I would have had to worry about electrical issues drying out later. That is a fact I have to worry about, anything below 522, but it isn't something that should happen every year due to keeping water levels up in February.

As far as I know the rule curve may not be as low in August as it has been recently, but it still allows them to draw it down to 496. It has been doing that, even by Jared's statements, since the early 70s. I'm sorry, but if you bought property without acknowledging that, it wasn't a good idea. And like it or not, people pay more for property that doesn't lose water, or loses it later in the season. It is just a fact.

I would like water to stay later in the summer months, but I knew what I was buying when I bought it. I have to take my boat out at about 502, that is just a fact. In most non drought years that is fine.

I'm sorry for ranting. But some on here are whining, and some on here are being abrasive.

Ron