Fall and winter at Lake of the Ozarks usually means a lull in activity and a break on the roads. That's not so this year. In the next few weeks, new roads will open to traffic, detours will reroute vehicles and fresh projects will get underway. Combined, more than $200 million has been spent by the Missouri Department of Transportation in the lake area. The projects have transformed the landscaped, redefined how residents and tourists get from one destination to another and even made it a little safer to travel.
A ruling by three judges in the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District against a state government commission leaves some Lake Ozark and Osage Beach residents with feelings of vindication.
The appellate court ruled against the Missouri Department of Natural Resources Land Reclamation Commission and Magruder Limestone Company in the case of a piece of property on Woodriver Road that has been disputed for more than three years.
Magruder Limestone initially sought a permit to open a rock quarry on its Woodriver Road property, but the Lake Ozark/Osage Beach Joint Sewer Board and a concerned citizens’ group raised a legal challenge to stop the quarry from opening. A quarry, they say, will threaten the sewage treatment plant near the proposed blasting site and the two force main sewer lines that pass through Magruder’s property.
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The lake level was 658.3 (660 is normal pool level); with minimum generation scheduled the lake should hold there through the weekend. Surface temperature at Bagnell Dam is 86 degrees with upstream temperatures of 83 to 89 degrees depending on time of day. The thermocline is still 20 to 25-feet deep in most areas. Truman Lake is at normal pool.
BLACK BASS – Bass fishing has worsened, it that is possible. The Wednesday Evening Tournament reported taking 14.05-pounds to win; Big Bass was 4.9-pounds
It took more than a year to build the Osage River Bridge beginning in 1932. On Tuesday, a few seconds passed, and the 77-year-old structure was sent crashing into the river below.
A billow of dust rose above and hung in the sky. The noise from the blast ricocheted and echoed in the valley creating a thunderous boom when it reached people’s ears.
“It was awesome,” Cody Limbach, of Iberia, said after the demolition.
Limbach was one of more than a hundred people who gathered on Route 17 in Tuscumbia for the countdown to the implosion.
“It’s a piece of history. I had to be here to see it,” Cyrilla Doerhoff said, who waited for the blast as well.
The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for central Camden County until 5:30 p.m.
The storm moving through the area is considered dangerous and capable of producing large hail and damaging winds.
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