Lake Lariat Closed as Percautionary Measure

[greyhound]

Wow! I wish I could have lived here then.
Do you have any pictures to share?
I would love to put them online so the members can see what it once was....

Maybe it could help us get more people involved...

June

I'll call my Mom tomorrow. I know she has pics at the stables when she was younger and Easter pics of my sister and I hunting Easter eggs at the Club House.

Edit...Sorry, I just noticed you were talking about the lake. Not sure if I have seen any. My Aunt may have some.

 

[ladyhawk]

I lived in CRClub many years ago. Before that my grandmother had a house there. It was a nice vacation getaway until the Old Court Savings & Loan scandel. Lots were auctioned off and the Ranch Club changed.

Have you been in the County a good length of time. The people that have been around awhile know what it was like.

We moved here after my husband retired from the USMC. He was stationed with Nav Air and we moved here when they finally transferred him from DC. I did not want our children in the DC schools..

We rented the first year on Lazy River and then bought the house we are in now. The reason we stayed was to let our children finish school. The fact that there was a private airport and the stables were a plus for us.

I really didn't care about a lake, I grew up 45 minutes from the ocean and when someone asked me if I wanted to go to the beach... well, lets just say we ended up at the lake, then the bay. It's just not the same..

June

 

[ladyhawk]

I'll call my Mom tomorrow. I know she has pics at the stables when she was younger and Easter pics of my sister and I hunting Easter eggs at the Club House.

Edit...Sorry, I just noticed you were talking about the lake. Not sure if I have seen any. My Aunt may have some.

You can go to www.poacre.org and then go to the history section.. Then there is another link for the past. I've had some members provide pictures but I wonder if anyone really sees them. I've also been in contact with Mr. Ablards grandson. Jeez, I've been so busy, I told him I had the CRE History book his grandfather had published, scanned into my computer and meant to send him the files. I can't put them online without permission because the book is copyrighted. I had hoped they would get another printing out but I don't know if they will.

COULD SOMEONE REMIND ME TO DO SEND HIM THE BOOK TOMORROW Please....

 

[ladyhawk]

Sorry everyone, we got a bit sidetracked. I always do when I find someone has some history to tell. I wish we could have back what I've heard it was. CRE had their own post office and general store, the firehouse which burned down (I thought that was kinda funny) they put on rodeos and wow you just wouldn't believe the history here if you talk to people that were here then!

I'm sure if you skip back at least one page, you can get past our historical converstion to the lake issues..

June

 

[exnodak]

You can see your toenails in the waters of other countries outside the US where you are warned not to drink the water...But I haven't figured out why their water is so much cleaner than ours....

June[/QUOTE]

This is an easy one.

You can see clearly through a bottle of alcohol, or paint thinner or most any other chemical solvent. That's because its so toxic NOTHING could live in it. Tequilla for example. That worm died quickly.

Their water is more clean LOOKING. It is not, necessarily, more clean or safe.

Its not the critters you can see that get you. Its the ones you can't see.

I also think you may be missing a point. It is NOT the cyanobacteria that is the killer. It is their toxic secretion that gets into the water. You can kill off all the cyanobacteria and the water will remain toxic until nature digests it or a heavy rain dilutes it. That is why monitoring is required after a bloom is recognized and even gone.

 

[ladyhawk]

I also think you may be missing a point. It is NOT the cyanobacteria that is the killer. It is their toxic secretion that gets into the water. You can kill off all the cyanobacteria and the water will remain toxic until nature digests it or a heavy rain dilutes it. That is why monitoring is required after a bloom is recognized and even gone.

You are correct in that I did not realize it was the secretions of the bacteria. But I did know that the recent rains would help dilute the situation. I dealt with this 12 years ago. We had control tanks setup on fish and that was the first I ever heard of cyanobacterias.

Because the labs took over, I moved and lost touch with Chris who was keeping up with any research they did after.. This was right about the same time as outbreaks on humans fishing in the waters of the Neuse River in NC.

They were fishermen, making their living selling what they caught. One man made the newspapers and he had the same lesions we found on fish. I know when I was on one of the past boards (I want to say it was in 2003), NC was involved with MD and VA on this problem and then it went away or it just got quiet for a while.. Take your pick on that one..

June

 

[ladyhawk]

Lake Lariat Update

Today, I was told that the Health Department did call the POACRE office and told them to close the beaches when they received the reports. I will be calling them first thing tomorrow to verify this. I do not rely on rumor and speculation but instead verify things as necessary. But I do not rely on waiting for someone else because of my experiences with Cyanobacterias. My Vet agreed with me on this one.

June

I called the Health Department today. They told me that the last sample they tested was on September 5th and that it was the lowest all summer with a reading of 1.93 ppm (parts per million). Then I asked what they tested for. The only test they do is for E. Coli bacteria. Any other tests would have to be sent out. Cyanobacteria requires a special test to detect and is primarily done by private labs.

They had no reason to call anyone based on their recent tests.

I asked how often they tested and based on their records, it was about every two weeks and they test the waters right at the swimmers area of the beach. The highest reading over the summer was 3.0 ppm and they had been in contact with the General Manager throughout the summer because of the testing.

I do wonder now if they should use the lower recordings as a warning to have additional tests because I heard that Cyanobacteria may well have fed off the E. Coli thus causing such a low reading... I'd have to do my own research on this one because I am not sure that would be the case, but it is something to look into...

June