June 16th Lake Clean-up "On The Water"

The 1st annual "On The Water" lake cleanup was a huge success!

Tom "Wounded Leg" VandeVanter worked with Jack Graham (Boy Scout Ranger) to work out the location for the project, secured a 30 yard dumpster from Excess Disposal and lined up Mark Bockemuehl owner of Ambex for the track hoe and dump truck, in conjunction with Arlie, owner of Bacon Excavation. Great job running the track hoe Arlie and thank you for spending the entire-day from 7:00am to 5:00pm!

Tom and I put together a group of volunteers and we had some folks join in with the cleanup effort when they heard about the project that day. We pulled at least a dozen old docks out of the lake, along with chairs, carpeting, cans & bottles. You name it, we found it. Jack setup a burn pile for all the burnable wood debris that will be burned at a later time. We completely filled the 30 yard dumpster and have a couple decks of old dock logs to be disposed of.

Special thanks to Tom VandeVanter, Jack Graham, Jared Hoadley, Mark Zabawa, Tom Metzger, Cliff Snow, Paul & Connie Moore, Dan Little, Bob & Pam Tully and Jerry & Maria Senn. Thanks to Doug & Joan Morgan for bringing down orange juice and muffins, great timing & greatly appreciated!

This was a huge effort by everyone involved. The tulies look great, let's keep it that way. Please don't dump your old docks and debris, it's not a junk yard, it's our lake! Thank you!