Stephen Welch, Owner/Broker of Bass Lake Realty, attended the Crane Valley Dam Update meeting that was held August 18th, 2011 in the Lakeview Room at The Pines Resort at Bass Lake. Here is the latest news on their progress and anticipated plans for completion:
“Lake drawdown will begin Tuesday September 6th. Expect the level to go down about 2 feet/week. It will be about 6 feet further down (total of -16”) by September 26th and 18 feet further down (total of -28’) by October 16th. It will remain -26 to -28 feet down for the winter to accommodate their work.
Rubber boat ramp extensions will be added to the Pines Marina to allow for launching this winter
Current work includes blasting in the quarry, trucking rock from Raymond (about 32 trucks/day now and then 64/day from 8/29 to 9/13), and reinforcing the west end downstream portion of the dam.
Additional permitting is underway to haul an additional 50,000 cu yards of material and to create an additional 13 acre storage site near the existing quarry for storage of the material
Expect to commence work on the upstream side in February 2012
Lake level next summer: again -10 feet
Lake level next winter: again – 26-28 feet
Last phase is to increase the height of the dam about 7 feet – to be done winter of 2012-2013
Completion Spring 2013
“As you may recall, the original schedule called for completion April of 2012. The delay is caused by the lake coming up prematurely this past winter due to the above normal precipitation and the unforeseen need to import additional granite from Raymond and the permitting related to that. They anticipated 20% waste from the quarry and actually are at about 40%. This has slowed the process and necessitated the importing of additional rock. This delay is unfortunate for all but as a great philosopher once said…”it is what it is…”
For ongoing updates and information, feel free to log onto the home page of our website at www.BassLakeRealty.com and click on “Crane Valley Dam Seismic Retrofit Information”. You may also click on the DamCam photo on the home page to view the work in progress; or go directly to: www.BassLakeDamCam.com