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August 30, 2009 - Shavehead Lake Water Levels after significant rainfall

As well as the unrestrained dogs complaints, we have also received numerous complaints from our residents about folks water-skiing / wake-boarding on the lake after heavy rainfalls, which is causing a lot of concerns about shore-line erosion. This concern is well-founded, and a letter from our drain commissioner, that was published in the local newspapers, is attached.
Please folks, use some common sense after a heavy rainfall in your boating!
The wakes that are created by high-speed boating, after a heavy rainfall, do affect your neighbors shorelines..
Both lake associations have received numerous complaints about this, (as well as the "unrestrained dog problem").. We'll be looking into a way to establish a "no-wake" ordinance on our lake when our water level exceeds a certain height, and a way in which to inform our residents that our lake is in a "no-wake" state..
This is in the interest of protecting the shoreline of our lake, and is by request of many residents of the lake.
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The letter from the drain commissioner follows, and we ask everyone once again to please be considerate of your neighbors in your boating activities.

Press Release

Bruce Campbell

Cass County Water Resources Commissioner

269.445.4428

brucec@cassco.org

On Monday, August 17^th, 2009 areas in Southwest Michigan and Northern Indian experienced another heavy rain event that dumped considerable amounts of rain in Cass County, MI. A lot of Cass county received 1-2” of rain in a two hour period but there were some areas in the county that received considerably more. It was reported that in Cassopolis at Community Mills the rain gauge read over 4”. Reports around Union and Edwardsburg were from 4-5”. Campbell reports “I heard from a number of residents on Shavehead Lake in Porter Township that their rain gauges registered 7” of rain water.

Cass County Water Resources Commissioner Bruce Campbell urges boaters to use good judgment until the waters return to normal levels. Water levels on most of the county lakes are very high and wakes can cause damage to seawalls, lawns, piers, boats, docks, and in some cases even homes. Cass County has 20 lakes that have a legally established lake levels and on the majority of those lakes the level exceeds those set elevations.

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