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State ordered Lake Hodges water level lowered due to unsafe dam.


https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local ... 638d2d64a8

The stupidity of the City of San Diego never ceases! They knew the dam was over 100 years old and they did nothing to plan for its replacement! Now they've wasted 11 billion gallons of water and I guarantee they'll raise your rates to make up for it!!! Morons!!

Here's what happens when someone at a TV station goes looking for internet drama. If anyone can find anything to support the claim that the lake is polluted, I'd be interested in seeing it.

The eleven billion gallons, btw, has alread been released; that's the tally for the last year.

But in today's action-packed, hard-hitting, investigative journalism:


“They opened the lake only to kayak and shore fisherman... The reason given was the lake was polluted,” viewer Andrew wrote.

The city's website says, "The state... does not allow water contact activities of any kind, due to water quality."

(That doesn't mean the lake is polluted. It means activities that might pollute the lake are limited to preserve water quality...and now the talking stick and tinfoil hat are passed to....)

Windsurfer Kevin Kidd-Tackaberry said Lake Hodges is not polluted (yeah, we know..."Viewer Andrew" apparently invented that factoid) and he has the water tests to prove it. The former San Diego city employee said the city should post water advisory signs, not close the entire lake to windsurfing.

“It really ought to be an advisory. That's all they're required to do with the bacterial levels that there are now,” Kidd-Tackaberry said. “Windsurfing is very limited water contact. It's just incidental to a fall occasionally.”

Windsurfers are butthurt that kayakers can use the water tank but they cannot....and they may have a point.

As for not planning ahead, the replacement dam's been in the planning stages for a decade. And yeah, it would be faster if they just build a dam and raised water rates; but instead they have to mine the money from different infrastructure support structures at the state and federal level. Don't worry....the new dam might be in place by 2034.

If anyone can find anything to support Viewer Andrew's claim that the city's website says the lake is polluted, I'd be very interested to see it.
But I'm skeptical.

This "news story" is just a mechanism to build traffic to KFMB's website (and the feed the beast, meaning they need to fill their website and newscasts with something, and reposting internet drama is quick and cheap). There is nothing that's not true in the story...Viewer Andrew
really did say what he said, even if it's completely false. The miracle of attribution...

So there's a picture of three guys windsurfing at Hodges Wednesday in today's Union-Tribune. The caption reads, in part: "San Diego city, which operates the reservoir, announced that wind sports are now allowed on the lake after a yearlong stoppage due to water quality." Not jumping to (m)any conclusions, but it would seem that some drunken water managing mook decided to let people fish, but not windsurf...citing some vague concern about "water quality"...until the windsurfers complained enough to get 'em to open the lake for them.

20% increases coming, when is enough a enough.
People need to wake up, these people in office aren’t for you.