Gas, Oil Drilling Focus of Aug. 14 LCA Annual Meeting
The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 14 at the Depot in Charlevoix with a brief business meeting. A pot-luck lunch will follow. Please let Sue Costa know if you are coming and if you are bringing a dish to share.
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Paul Witting discussed the program with new Shoreline Ambassador Bess Parish (on left) and Carole Carroll
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Shoreline Ambassador Program Begins
A new LCA Shoreline Ambassador Program has been started to enhance two-way communication between lakefront owners, lake users, and the LCA leadership. The first meeting, on June 29, drew 14 volunteers to a discussion of how to make the program effective. Click here to read more.
Volunteers Wanted
Volunteer opportunities will be posted here on a regular basis. If you have a few hours to spare and want to help, please respond to sue@lca-mi.org. Or take a few minutes to complete our online survey. Please click here, fill out the survey and submit it. Your help makes all the difference.
Spring 2010, a treated Phragmites site, cut down, with some new growth. To be treated again in fall 2010. Photo by Mike Dow.
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After an enormously successful first effort in 2009, we'll be back at work on the phragmites problem again this year. Activities have begun with the completion of three training sessions and the
signing up of almost 100% of last year's volunteers for this year's surveying. In the fall we will apply more herbicides
to the sites that our surveyors tell us need it. Click here for more information and a calendar of activities.
Marine Unit Plans Weekend Efforts
The Charlevoix County Sheriff's Marine Division is always out in force for weekends, making particular efforts over holidays such as July 4 or Labor Day. You can be cited for running your boat within 100 feet of swimmers or docks, for making too much noise or for not having your registration current. Learn more.
Major State of Michigan boating regulations
News and Notes from the Lake
Last year a homeowner on Lake Charlevoix installed a fixed water-level gauge and agreed to share the data with LCA on a regular basis. This is what the gauge showed in March (left) and July (right).
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If you were hoping the winter snow and spring rains were going to bring Charlevoix's water level back toward normal, you are likely to be disappointed again this year. The Army Corps of Engineers, which is charged with forecasting these levels, now figures the level will most likely be 7 inches lower this summer than it was last summer and 13 inches below the long-term average. (more) |
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