Another lake gone

[dsmith]

This is so so sad. We loved fishing this lake. When we fished it last summer, it was really low. But It hasn't been that hot since then, and we have had a smigent of rain. Didn't make sense. We have seen a couple lakes go around here with the drought. The news team reported that it was because of the drought. But there were a lot of "tongue in cheek" comments made that there was a lot of drilling going on in the area and they were using the lake. If that is true, that just makes me so mad. So now what do they have?? They took a nice fishing hole from everyone for their own private gain.
The same thing is happening at Kirby. It is very low, and yet they allow golf courses to use it. And Dennis and I saw a line going from Kirby to a private tank one day. We reported it, but it got swept under the rug.
Here are pics of what it looks like now:



This is pics of how it looked last summer:

[dsmith]

I didn't have any pics of the whole lake to show. It was small, but plenty deep. If we'd known, we might have gone fishing there. It is a shame some people didn't go harvest those fish.

[mastercatter]

That is a shame. I know that at the ranch we always had to get a permit to pump water to the tanks for livestock...We could not even put a windmill within either 1,000 or 1500 feet of the "natural bank" unless it was for hosehold use only There were many times that we had to haul water from town because we couldn't pump from the river to the tanks.

[lsull]

This drought has really been rough. I can't go in the Forrest to hunt since I had the stoke four years ago but I go down to camp just because I like it a lot. I went sightseeing. The big creek (Raccoon) wasn't flowing and there was no water coming off of the hills. I've Been hunting down there since 1975 and this is the first time there wasn't;t any water coming off of the hills.

[olhillbilly]

I would suspect Fracking. It ruins more water sources than the benefits it produces.