what has happened to mtn lake!?

[surfnvb7]

wow.......this is really depressing!!

http://sivtac.org/mtlake/mtlake.php

i put together a conference dinner up there during the summer of 2004, and the water had receeded to half way down the boat dock.......and I thought it was bad then.

in October 2003, when I was up there finalizing the contract, the water was all the way up the shoreline, with plenty of boats docked.

 

[vtminter]

It's nothing even now compared to the pictures that you posted. It's probably going to totally dry up. Where most of the lake used to be is nothing but a grassy field with a small pond. Literally probably less than 1000 square feet.

There are several theories as to why this is happening. There was an earthquake a few years back which might have caused the already present "leak" to become larger. I have heard from a personal source that there was some excavating going on. Then one day the water was really low and they blamed it on the excavating.

It's also been documented that the lake dries up completely every hundred years or so. I was told that this happened once in the 1800's.

The mountain is named salt pond mountain, so maybe it's just living up to it's name of being only a pond.

 

[surfnvb7]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13327065#post13327065 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by vtminter
It's nothing even now compared to the pictures that you posted. It's probably going to totally dry up. Where most of the lake used to be is nothing but a grassy field with a small pond. Literally probably less than 1000 square feet.

There are several theories as to why this is happening. There was an earthquake a few years back which might have caused the already present "leak" to become larger. I have heard from a personal source that there was some excavating going on. Then one day the water was really low and they blamed it on the excavating.

It's also been documented that the lake dries up completely every hundred years or so. I was told that this happened once in the 1800's.

The mountain is named salt pond mountain, so maybe it's just living up to it's name of being only a pond.

thats really odd. never heard that story about it drying up in the past.

salt pond mountain? why is it called "salt"? i thought it was so famous b/c it was a natural "freshwater" lake?

 

[ade]

Yes I was up there a couple of months ago took my family from Wales to see the place were Dirty Dancing was filmed.
It is a shame looking back on how it used to be, I have also heard of the 100 year old fault that drains the lake. While we were there workers told us that they are working on filling the lake back up. How they are going to do that, I have no idea.
Maybe have a kegger or three. No crossing streams.

 

[surfnvb7]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13327348#post13327348 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ade
Yes I was up there a couple of months ago took my family from Wales to see the place were Dirty Dancing was filmed.
It is a shame looking back on how it used to be, I have also heard of the 100 year old fault that drains the lake. While we were there workers told us that they are working on filling the lake back up. How they are going to do that, I have no idea.
Maybe have a kegger or three. No crossing streams.

they could just get all the frats at VT to volunteer throwing all the old kegs in the hole that is in the bottom of the lake to plug it up........they would lose their deposits though. though, maybe they can claim that as community service.

 

[vtminter]

The name salt pond supposedly came from an Indian legend. Atleast that is what I was told by someone from Giles county.

I am suprised they said they are trying to fix it back up. I was told they refuse to fill the leak with anything because then the lake will no longer be one of two natural lakes in VA.

 

[Saboral]

Filling it back up is possible.....

*Geotechnical Engineering Forthcoming*

By drilling and filling the voids under the lake with impermeiable clays (much like we are doing with older unlined landfills) we can stop the drainage. This process would bring the outflow of the Lake below 30-50 gallons per hour or less. I haven't seen any strikes from under the lake, but the theory of a fault under the lake is probably correct and it has caused many rock fissures under the lake bed. The way to find this out would be to see if over the last years the spring driven wells in the area have been extra high. It can be saved with geotechnical reclaimation, but it will take a long time for it to refill.

*End Engineering*

Anyone wanna cook some sausage and drink some beer?

 

[Virginia Reef]

I have heard that the lake has been through this cycle before. One theory is that the fissures/faults responsible for the current draining are also responsible for filling at other times. The thinking is that the fissures join the large aquafir at an angle. When water is flowing toward the fissures, the lake fills. When water flows the other direction, the lake drains.

Not vouching for but that's the story I heard there in May of this year.

Saboral,

I going to buy sausages on the way home tonight. I'll be grilling them and drinking beer (and frozen Margaritas) while tailgating before the GT game Saturday. We'll be in the RV section of the commuter lot. Look for an RV with Montana tags. Come on by for a grilled sausage and a cold beverage.

 

[Virginia Reef]

I have heard that the lake has been through this cycle before. One theory is that the fissures/faults responsible for the current draining are also responsible for filling at other times. The thinking is that the fissures join the large aquafir at an angle. When water is flowing toward the fissures, the lake fills. When water flows the other direction, the lake drains.

Not vouching for but that's the story I heard there in May of this year.

Saboral,

I going to buy sausages on the way home tonight. I'll be grilling them and drinking beer (and frozen Margaritas) while tailgating before the GT game Saturday. We'll be in the RV section of the commuter lot. Look for an RV with Montana tags. Come on by for a grilled sausage and a cold beverage.:beer:

 

[J. Montgomery]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13328381#post13328381 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Virginia Reef
I'll be grilling them and drinking beer (and frozen Margaritas) while tailgating before the GT game Saturday.

I'm a former Yellow Jacket. Buzzzzzz!!!

Drink plenty of tequila for me (though technically, it should be rum since "a barrel of rum" is mentioned in the GT fight song). And for good measure, be sure to join in the shout of "To Hell with Georgia" at the appropriate time of the fight song

 

[vetdog]

I'm with you.....to hell with Georgia ;-)

 

[Virginia Reef]

Josh,

I'll excuse a Yellow Jacket for not knowing our protocols. I'll lay it out for you...

Red Eyes or Bloody Marys for starters. Follow this with several beers (or wine for the ladies). We ALWAYS gather with a large group of friends an hour before kickoff for "communion." This consists of 2 or 3 dozen fans (mostly Hokies but visitors are welcome as well) doing a shot of Wild Turkey 101. Then onto the frozen Margaritas as we prepare to depart for the game. Of course, a large frozen Margarita makes the walk to the stadium with us.

The Rum comes into the stadium in miniature form to mix with Coke. Be sure not to get this part wrong.

Post game is time to finish the frozen Margaritas then it's back to beer as the grilling starts. This often continues until the 8:00 games on TV are over.

Care to join us? Buzzzzzz!!!

:beer:

BTW, I'm with you on the "To Hell with Georgia" thing.

 

[cayenne]

WoW, I gotta start tailgating with Paul. He has got this down pat. Almost as well as we do it in South Louisiana.

 

[J. Montgomery]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13329186#post13329186 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Virginia Reef
Care to join us? Buzzzzzz!!!

:beer:

BTW, I'm with you on the "To Hell with Georgia" thing.

Sounds good, unfortunately I have some much lamer plans for Saturday Official school "function", though I'll still be doing the sneaking in rum-thing.

 

[Virginia Reef]

Landen,

Speaking of South Louisiana...them LSU Tiger fans do it right. We went down last year for the thrashing that they administered to my Hokies in Death Valley. Their fans were GREAT. We had more offers for Jambalaya, Gumbo, and who knows what else than we could even begin to accept. Even the students were great...we partook of a number of beer bongs and even a wine bong with them. Now that wine bong kind of put me over the edge.

Imagine tailgating on the drillfield with, oh, about 100,000 of your closest friends. That's LSU. Heck, we even met some HIGH END RV tailgaters that packed up and left an hour before the game to go home and watch it on TV. The tailgating is such a big affair that thousands of their fans come to tailgate and never even have tickets.

 

[surfnvb7]

back during my VT tailgating days.....(circa 1999-2003)....it was tradition to make yucca in the days leading up to the game. those were seasons where we actually had 3 or 4 saturday night games (as opposed to *maybe* 1 a season now-a-days)

our version of yucca.......you basically take an empty pickle jar, completely fill with crushed ice, and about 6 limes and 6 lemons cut in half. add about 4 cups of sugar, and then fill to volume with a cheap vodka (although not Bowman's Virginia vodka...that stuff is toxic). then shake, shake, shake.......and keep shaking........for several days.

if all goes as planned, you will have a good dozen or so jars of yucca to last you all day saturday leading up to the game at night. (start around 9am).

 

[J. Montgomery]

My Freshman year at Tech I was dating at girl at UGA. She lived in a dorm, and if she didn't move her car before Thursday the week of a home game then she's be stuck until Sunday. The RVs would come rolling into town and they'd block practically every parking lot and road on campus.

Since then UGA has really cracked down on the areas that people are allowed to park for games. It used to be complete madness around there.

Tech is in the middle of downtown Atlanta with a metro population ~5 million. Games don't really make a dent in local traffic! :lol: