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Lake City hears Glen Lake restoration plan; $4.1 million Hazard Mitigation grant submitted
Summary
Engineers presented a Glen Lake restoration plan that would deepen the lake, replace a failed outfall control structure and limit sediment. The city submitted a $4.1 million Hazard Mitigation Grant Program application with a 25% city match; permitting with the Suwannee River Water Management District is next.
At its Oct. 6 meeting, the Lake City Council received a progress report on a proposed restoration of Glen Lake from Michael Klink, a project engineer with 4 Waters Engineering.
Klink said the project aims to restore a 7.4-acre lake by dredging accumulated sediment, removing excess vegetation and replacing a failed outfall control structure. “The soil samples that were taken from the lake are not contaminated, which is great because that they can go the dredging can go to land a normal landfill and it reduces costs quite a bit,” Klink said.
The consultant told the council the conceptual design would increase the lake’s water volume by about 41,000 cubic yards and set a normal water level at elevation 123 feet with a lake bottom at 116 feet, providing roughly 7 feet of depth. The plan calls for a replacement outfall control structure roughly 15 feet wide with about 200 square feet of flow…
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