LAKE PLACID WATERFRONT COMMUNITY

According to the notes from the March 2025 engineering construction meeting held on March 13, 2025, and attended by Keith Strimple of the Lake Placid WCID, the substantial completion of our new dam is now estimated to be July 5, 2025. Folks, this is coming soon and is now a little over 90 plus days before the expected increase in our lake’s water level will begin as part of the testing and commissioning process. Please note that the substantial completion date may be moved forward or back depending on progress. Please monitor either the Lake Placid WCID webpage or the CULP Facebook pages for monthly construction updates.

Many of our lake front community have made temporary improvements such as docks and stairs, and where clearing has occurred there are burn piles in some cases. The very last thing our lake front community needs is for any of these structure / piles to break loose and impede the operations of our new dam as they begin testing the dam and ultimately filling Lake Placid. As a key reminder, any debris removal by Sundt or damage to the dam gates will result in change orders to the contract and increase construction costs to US. I for one feel we are already paying enough for the luxury of a new dam and the return of our beautiful lake, and this is one additional cost that we as lake front property owners can collectively control and avoid.

Each waterfront property owner needs to assess their lake front area and begin the removal of grown-up vegetation on the lakebed which could impede your access to the lake and/or become a safety hazard once the lake is filled. Plans should be made by each lake front property owner to remove burn piles, brush and other debris and dismantle all temporary docks/stairs/structures from the riverbed prior to the substantial completion date of July 5, 2025. If you wait until the water levels begin to rise it may be very challenging or impossible to address these issues.

This should be a community effort by all lakefront property owners. If you have neighbors who cannot clean up vegetation for health reasons or due to their age, please help them out. Contact your property owner’s association or any CULP Board member to assist in the marshaling of potential resources to assist those neighbors in need.

Everyone, this is the last big effort to get your debris cleaned up so that you will be able to enjoy your lake front property as early as possible. Also, not a bad idea to take advantage of the less than sweltering heat during April and May.

CULP is developing plans to clean up / clear areas of the main channel in the coming weeks so please follow our Facebook page for further announcements.

CULP Board