protecting shoreline during high water

[bojans]

Our lake is currently at an all time high, likely 2' above normal. There are concerns that this will be causing issues with erosion on the shore line of peoples homes. We have already said no wake boarding or surfing, no spinning skiers at the developed end of the lake, etc. There now seems to be some call to not allow trick skiing or even to stop all skiing until the lake goes down. Given that our lake is at ground water level and has no outlet, the lake coming down will be a very long process. Has anyone come up with an affordable, easily deploy-able solution to help with erosion on a temporary basis?

[Horton]

Every lake is different because of slope and soil type. Erosion happens....

[MISkier]

Can you get a siphon started that would go over the sides and into a nearby drainage ditch. You may be able to lower the lake quite quickly.

[BraceMaker]

@MISkier has a good one,

 

You have a lot of surplus water...nothing becomes cheap when you go around a few thousand feet of shore.

 

Does your lake end up too low to use in fall?

[elr]

When my lake is high I ask people to go no wake speed or slalom speed in a straight line.

[skimtb]

No ideas to help, seems like it would be a lot of shoreline. Siphon idea is good.

I’d push to keep slalom open and shut down trick (Lower speed/bigger wake) if you can.

[bojans]

@BraceMaker our lake is never too low to ski, we have an average depth of ~35' with some holes of ~60'

 

we don't need thousands of feet of protection, really just a few hundred around structures that were built (walk ways, patios, etc) and never meant to be this close to the water.

[skimtb]

How about some of that orange snow fence, whatever cheapest way to stand it up is, maybe short fence posts?

[bojans]

@skimtb does that fencing work?

 

[skimtb]

@bojans No clue. Just trying to think of something cheap for a a few hundred feet...

Maybe do two rows spaced 10’ apart?

Would be low cost to try it for a small section.

Thinking more, I may recall someone using it on this forum for a small area, but don’t remember thread. Search for rollers or waves wakes etc.

[Gar]

Find a close by Athletic turf field they are discarding the old turf. Use that.

[Sethro]

Siphoning into a ditch would be sure to make someone downstream irate....especially if it’s a man made lake???

[Drago]

Oh, the irony :/

Can’t really pump ground water away.

You can buy erosion mitigation fencing. Its about 16” high. Call your local lumber supplier (a real lumber yard, i don't think Lowes or Home Depot will have it, but Maybe...)or irrigation supply company. May make rollers, but that's way better than not skiing!

[LeonL]

The normal orange fencing (like you find at Lowes) won't work. The holes are too big. I ordered some online that has more material and less holes. We used it to aid in preventing backwash in a small area. It does help. Unfortunately I don't remember details. Just shop around the Internet. Comes in 100' rolls 4' high. Use steel "T" posts about every 10'.

[BraceMaker]

You're basically going to end up owning 4000' of plastic rubbish and 400 steel T posts with any possible option, be it erosion fabric, turf, snow fence etc.

 

I'd almost wonder if something photo or biodegradable would be available? There is an erosion material that they use around here made of something that feels like compressed coconut husk.

 

Times like these are when you wish you had a cable ;)

[Deanoski]

We use snow fencing in problem areas at our pond it works well Fold it over I will take some pics Tuesday