Thanks for posting the pictures! Pretty cool.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 11:42 AM
QUOTE(Gaelic925 @ Dec 3 2007, 10:49 AM) 
Thanks for posting the pictures! Pretty cool.
Aside from the rusty junk and debris it looks like a lot of piles of rocks.
What should really be concerning is that if people lived there how friggin low was the water and for how long back then? If this keeps up I'm sure the Planning Commission will OK a Quik-E_Mart right there to serve the people who will buy the newest Lake front property.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 11:44 AM
QUOTE(Darthvader @ Dec 3 2007, 11:42 AM)
Aside from the rusty junk and debris it looks like a lot of piles of rocks.
What should really be concerning is that if people lived there how friggin low was the water and for how long back then? If this keeps up I'm sure the Planning Commission will OK a Quik-E_Mart right there to serve the people who will buy the newest Lake front property.
What should really be concerning is that if people lived there how friggin low was the water and for how long back then? If this keeps up I'm sure the Planning Commission will OK a Quik-E_Mart right there to serve the people who will buy the newest Lake front property.
Your kidding right? PLease tell me you aren't serious. Folsom Lake is a lake because of the dam. If there was no dam, there would be 2 rivers.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 11:50 AM
QUOTE(chris v @ Dec 3 2007, 11:44 AM)
Your kidding right? PLease tell me you aren't serious. Folsom Lake is a lake because of the dam. If there was no dam, there would be 2 rivers.
Cmon dude, it's joke-around Monday, don't spoil the fun...
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 11:52 AM
Mormon Island existed pre-folsom damn.
So it was essentially a town next to the river.
So it was essentially a town next to the river.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 11:54 AM
QUOTE(Darthvader @ Dec 3 2007, 12:42 PM)
Aside from the rusty junk and debris it looks like a lot of piles of rocks.
What should really be concerning is that if people lived there how friggin low was the water and for how long back then? If this keeps up I'm sure the Planning Commission will OK a Quik-E_Mart right there to serve the people who will buy the newest Lake front property.
What should really be concerning is that if people lived there how friggin low was the water and for how long back then? If this keeps up I'm sure the Planning Commission will OK a Quik-E_Mart right there to serve the people who will buy the newest Lake front property.
you do know that the town was there before the lake was there, right? Folsom Dam created Folsom Lake. Before the dam was built, the north and south fork of the American River came together right upstream of the dam and there was no lake. tell me you already knew that!!
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 11:57 AM
QUOTE(Darthvader @ Dec 3 2007, 12:50 PM)
Cmon dude, it's joke-around Monday, don't spoil the fun...
okay, i consider my leg pulled.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 02:21 PM
QUOTE(October15 @ Dec 3 2007, 09:36 AM)
Can you give directions to the Mormon Island Dam parking area???
Thanks!
Thanks!
Its at the intersection of Green Valley and Sophia Pkwy. Parking lot is up a short dirt road just below the dike.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 02:26 PM
I'm gonna go check this out today. What is the easiest way to access it, I'll have my 8 year old with me so no multi-mile hikes today.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 02:46 PM
QUOTE(4thgenFolsomite @ Dec 3 2007, 11:54 AM)
you do know that the town was there before the lake was there, right? Folsom Dam created Folsom Lake. Before the dam was built, the north and south fork of the American River came together right upstream of the dam and there was no lake. tell me you already knew that!!
well, er.. um.. er.. uhh...mm.. uhh, sheeze.. ahhyea...umm..well..aah..uh uhhuh?
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 02:51 PM
QUOTE(MSgt @ Dec 3 2007, 03:46 PM)
well, er.. um.. er.. uhh...mm.. uhh, sheeze bully
sorry. i didn't mean to sound mean.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 02:52 PM
QUOTE(chris v @ Dec 3 2007, 11:44 AM)
Your kidding right? PLease tell me you aren't serious. Folsom Lake is a lake because of the dam. If there was no dam, there would be 2 rivers.
haha, I bet he was serious.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 02:55 PM
Kinda laughable when you think about it.
Hey--let's build a dam.
Hey, let's Not regulate how much water we use from the dam each year.
Hey--look at that!! There's a piece of history in the dam. Let;s call it valuable historical and federal peoperty.
You can be arrestsed for messing with it.
Oh, boy, I can't wait till the snows come and melt off. I'm really looking forward to that area being flooded again--my new jet ski can jump wakes like you wouldn't believe.
Well- here's to another dry season-- may the randy old bricks get a chance to dry out before getting flooded again, 'cause our foresight is histories loss.
Hey--let's build a dam.
Hey, let's Not regulate how much water we use from the dam each year.
Hey--look at that!! There's a piece of history in the dam. Let;s call it valuable historical and federal peoperty.
You can be arrestsed for messing with it.
Oh, boy, I can't wait till the snows come and melt off. I'm really looking forward to that area being flooded again--my new jet ski can jump wakes like you wouldn't believe.
Well- here's to another dry season-- may the randy old bricks get a chance to dry out before getting flooded again, 'cause our foresight is histories loss.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 02:55 PM
QUOTE(c_vanderveen @ Dec 3 2007, 02:52 PM)
haha, I bet he was serious.
That's what I'm thinking.
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 03:18 PM
Wow John those are awesome pictures, I've been a resident since '89 and have never seen the lake that low. Lowest I can recall was around '97 when I was a kid at F.H. we would go 4Wheeling down around where the pictures are, only some of the site was visible not nearly as clear and dry as those pictures though.
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