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 Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: Douglas J]
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08/27/13 07:31 PM
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J.H.S.
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Wow, you guys in East Texas are WAY to spoiled. Griping about a lake that will be 10 foot low? Try living in West Texas where we have lakes that are 30, 40, even 50 foot low. take average depths as well as the deepest depths and compare them. The lakes out west are DEEPER and have more abrupt depth changes based on terrain around them. A lot of lakes out here are flat and not deep so 10' here can easily be 2 to 3 times as bad because of that. You can't compare lake to lake like that. Besides we all make the choices to live in the area we choose. I share Z522's point of view in that I am glad we have had the chance to fish it for this long. Clearly yall have not been out here to see our lakes. Im not talking about Amistad either. Here is a list. Hubbard creek, Oak Creek, Sweetwater, JB Thomas, Twin Buttes, OC Fisher, Colorado City, Champion, Brady, I can keep going. !0 feet is nothing. Our lakes out here may have 50 to 70 feet of water when full, but you take 30 to 50 feet out of them and you don't have much of a lake. You guys whose lakes are down 3 to 6 feet still have it good. We have had to resort to tubes and little bass busters out here in places. Im just saying, from someone who lives around lakes that look as bad as they do, have some appreciation for what yall do have. this is "Merica , you sir are permitted to move... Seriously who chooses to live in an arid wasteland and complains about lack of water???? and this thread was about the drop at Fork, not about out west... Number 1 I will not take someone serious who uses the word "Merica" Number 2 I never once complained. I simply stated FACTUAL information. Number 3 I was simply calling you Fork folks out on your lack of appreciation when there are people who have it worse. Try again....
Last edited by J.S. ASU; 08/27/13 07:38 PM.
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: J.H.S.]
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08/27/13 08:07 PM
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Douglas J
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Number 1 I will not take someone serious who uses the word "Merica" It's actually " 'Merica "
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: forkduc]
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08/27/13 08:34 PM
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Top Waters
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I love Fork, but it was built as a water supply lake for Dallas.
What ticks me off is Dallas has no water rationing program going on, just use all you want. That is irresponsible. I live in Plano and we can water 1 day a week, with no watering between 10:00AM and 6:00PM. Lawns,flowers,shrubs and trees are doing fine with this. It's best not to pop off about something until you have done your homework. See the City of Dallas 2 times per week schedule in the following link. http://savedallaswater.com/twice-weekly-watering-schedule/Since Dallas is NOT part of the North Texas Municipal Water District ( http://ntmwd.com/membercities.html), they have different water restrictions. The City of Dallas is much more prepared (due to good long range planning) for the drought than NTMWD member cities. Look at the number and size of lakes Dallas can pull from as compared to NTMWD. http://66.97.146.6/lakelevels/http://ntmwd.com/lake_levels.html
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: GTS1]
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08/27/13 09:01 PM
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Mark Perry
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I have been out west and I have seen a lot of those lakes. There are differences in topography that are unique to each region. Then again why the hell am I even arguing any of it. Both areas are hugely affected by the drought. No one is slighting the west in the least but ya'll act like no one has any reason to complain. Its just people ranting and venting and its not a competition to see who has it worse.
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: GTS1]
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08/27/13 09:30 PM
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Cameron
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Dont go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers
And the lakes that youre used to
I know that youre gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: Cameron]
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08/27/13 09:45 PM
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YankHardReelFast
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Dont go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers
And the lakes that youre used to
I know that youre gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
You win the gayest post of the day award!
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: Cameron]
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08/27/13 10:25 PM
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Jersey Dan
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Dont go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers
And the lakes that youre used to
I know that youre gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
I don't think the TFF is up on TLC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: GTS1]
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08/27/13 10:56 PM
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Lowly Net Boy
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HAHAHA.........You guys are all wrong.I know , I've seen it...... there is no recourse You realize we are all doomed, DOOMED I TELL YA !!!! 
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: ogles824 (aka Lakewaydr50)]
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08/27/13 11:20 PM
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Fishspanker
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This is going to get interesting now if they do this. I know the land owners and businesses around the lake can't sue them for removing water but I can't help but wonder if the folks around Fork will try to sue them for property damage because their piers and boat houses are high and dry permanently for the most part, there by lowering property values....... Makes about as much sense as a lawsuit against the sun for evaporation. Lake Fork was built as a water supply. Without that it would not be there.
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: 921 Phoenix]
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08/27/13 11:57 PM
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ogles824 (aka Lakewaydr50)
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This is going to get interesting now if they do this. I know the land owners and businesses around the lake can't sue them for removing water but I can't help but wonder if the folks around Fork will try to sue them for property damage because their piers and boat houses are high and dry permanently for the most part, there by lowering property values....... Folks DONOT own the land on the water it is SRA lease back. no one can own the SRA so they can not sue It won't be the land in the dispute but rather the private property adjacent to the SRA property that will be the issue if these folks decide to take action......if we get some lake filling rains in the near future I figure everybody will be happy and things will just keep humming along peacefully, but if we go a prolonged period with all this private property high and dry it could get interesting......
Last edited by ogles824 (aka Lakewaydr50); 08/28/13 12:01 AM.
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: J.H.S.]
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08/28/13 01:06 AM
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Ryorgensen
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Wow, you guys in East Texas are WAY to spoiled. Griping about a lake that will be 10 foot low? Try living in West Texas where we have lakes that are 30, 40, even 50 foot low. talk to the big guy upstairs, not our fault ... Big difference ....our lakes are only 30-50 ft deep in east tx...yals are what 100 + deep? You take 10 ft out of 30 ft lake..your left with only deep water by dam. Lets do some % here. 30 to 50 ft and yall are down lets call it 5 foot. That is any where from 10% to 16% of your water. We can average anywhere from 50 to 70 ft and most of our lakes are well....20 to 50 ft low. That translates anywhere from 30% to well....quite frankly 100% of our water. Fork is at 76% full, out here where I live, Ivie is at 17%. Tired of all the complaining from East Texas fisherman. Ivie is 120 ft deep at full pool. Your sayin it's 17 % . That's saying its approximately 100 ft low???.... Wow! Maybe yal should invest in big deep water wells to help the lakes with all that oil money....jmo...
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: GTS1]
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08/28/13 01:20 AM
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YankHardReelFast
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Ivie is 40.54' low. 
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: GTS1]
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08/28/13 01:26 AM
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Ryorgensen
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Which means there's still 80 ft deep water in it...a LONG way from the 17 % that was quoted...It's say to look up info ..just google it rather than make up numbers.
Robert
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Re: Lake Fork being dropped?
[Re: Ryorgensen]
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08/28/13 01:32 AM
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grout-scout
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Which means there's still 80 ft deep water in it...a LONG way from the 17 % that was quoted...It's say to look up info ..just google it rather than make up numbers. It's actually 16.9% Oh how I hope all those babied cherry picked trophy bass at Fork experience a big ol' die off. http://www.h2owesttexas.org/available.php. Oh yeah, google it!
Last edited by grout-scout; 08/28/13 01:33 AM.
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