Paradise Acres

[Fire Truck Bud]

Years ago I used to dock at Floro's and go out the Toussaint. Somtimes the water depth was an issue in the river and at the mouth. Is it ok going out of Paradise even with a south wind these days?

[wakina]

Years ago I used to dock at Floro's and go out the Toussaint. Somtimes the water depth was an issue in the river and at the mouth. Is it ok going out of Paradise even with a south wind these days?

Not exactly, the river is deep enough and Beef Creek was dredged last year so it is not a real problem. But since they tried to change the channel from the river mouth to the deep water in the lake the new channel likes to close up with a good NE blow, it goes mostly straight out now and not along the beach. It has to be dredged several times a year to keep it deep enough. Yes a South wind helps lower the water in that channel from river to lake.

[put]

Does anyone know what was going on out front last year late fall? Several crews out along the beach toward Perry walking in the lake 20-30 yards out, a bunch of survey type markers along the beach, and they had a green channel marker installed out front of the channel. Was hoping for sometype of improvements???

[wakina]

Does anyone know what was going on out front last year late fall? Several crews out along the beach toward Perry walking in the lake 20-30 yards out, a bunch of survey type markers along the beach, and they had a green channel marker installed out front of the channel. Was hoping for sometype of improvements???

Not a clue, but I have been told several times by several Marina owners that the Army Corps of Engineers will not make any improvements or approve any private improvements but will only allow dredging.

Beef Creek maintains the channel marker bouys from river to lake. The law is very restrictive on the dredging operation from the mouth of the river to the end of the channel marker bouys.

We need a break wall extending out to deeper water, but that will probably never happen. The natural channel that was maintained by mother nature is no longer there, years ago it ran along the beach at an angle out into the lake to the east for quite a little ways then you could turn left out into the lake without problems. The channel area now was a sandbar at that time and every time a NE wind blows it trys to return to its natural state.

[put]

That's what I was hoping was maybe a study to prove that a break wall was needed. Had a bunch of guys tell me that back in the day that the Toussaint was the busiest channel until the problems with the depth.