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We appreciate the enthusiasm many property owners have demonstrated to prepare the bottomlands for lake refill. While property owners are permitted to mow the first 40 feet of bottomlands in front of their property and remove debris, you are NOT permitted to perform any of the following activities:
Addressing bottomland vegetation and debris on Secord, Smallwood and Sanford lakes by the end of the fall of 2025 will help with the quality of lake refill. FLTF cannot direct special assessment funds towards this effort, but in its capacity as a nonprofit, it is working with the community to come together to prepare the lakes for refill.
Once work is substantially complete on a dam, lake refill is permitted to begin between April 15th and October 1st. As you can see in the table below, the time it takes to bring a lake to its normal (legal) level can vary greatly depending on weather (rainfall, snowmelt, evaporation, etc.). The timing to fill a lake is dependent on:
This is a wide range. The takeaway is the lakes fill faster in the spring, and have to wait until spring if the dam isn't complete by the fall.  These are the substantial completion dates that are in the construction plans. Please note these dates can change based on how construction progresses and the weather. In the September construction newsletter, we will provide progress against these completion dates.  It has been a busy summer for the Four Lakes as we completed the first round of bond financing and ramped up construction. Once we are through the summer construction season, we will be able to refine our view on construction timing and costs in time for the October webinar. Given the interest in this subject, we summarized our estimated timing in the newsletter below. Projected costs are currently below the not-to-exceed estimate in the computation of cost. We reviewed current planning estimates at our previous webinar.
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