www.iFourWinns.com

Acutally if you look closely you will see the slope of the shore precludes that. Most of the dock owners took their boats out of the water and then pushed their docks out so they would rest on relatively level ground. As the water level rises slowley the docks will float again and can then be pulled back into shore...

I took this picture from Lower Star Creek Road. If you look at the map here (zoom out) it is the upper right "finger of the lake"...
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=34.848159&lon=-84.29035&zoom=16&q1=lake%20blue%20ridge

Also regarding the fish, there is still a lot of lake left in the deepest areas where the fish are. Here are some facts about the lake:
Blue Ridge Dam is one of the largest earthen dams in North America and was built by the Toccoa Electric Power Company in 1925-1930
Renamed Lake Blue Ridge in 1934 the lake is 3,300 acres and has 100 miles of shoreline
80% of the shoreline is U.S. Forest Service land (which is why lake front property is very expensive)
Southern most lake in the US where walleye can be caught
Normal Pool is 1692 ft above MSL

Go here for general lake info and dam rehabilitation project info:http://www.tva.com/sites/blueridge.htm

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More pictures. This is from the big end of the lake near the dam and the marina (we have 1 marina). As you can see they have pulled all of the floating dock slips out to the middle. They have to ferry boat owners out to their boats. Also the gravel road is the makeshift boat ramp and is the only one left on the lake that you can use to get in and out of the water. There were actually some jet skis out on the lake over the weekend...

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2003 Horizon 240 With 5.7 Volvo Penta

Those are some amazing pix.....here we have consistent depth changes of 7 feet with the tides every 6 hrs (every 12 hrs there is a high tide, high to low is 6hrs)...so you have to keep this in mind but the water is always pretty much deep enough...

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1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

We just got back from our week stay in the Blue Ridge Mountains and thought I would swing by Lake Blue Ridge to take a few pics of the drawdown. The chart below shows the lake levels down around 50 feet so another 10 feet to go before work on the dam can begin.





Now I know why you guys from Atlanta haul your boats up here to go boating. Beautiful country up here.

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Current Boat: 2000 Four Winns 298 Vista
Previous Boat: 2000 Carver 406MY

Hey! Nice pics. I am not sure how I missed seeing these.

Anyway, I don't haul my boat up there, it stays there full time.

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Wow thats a lot of water, TVA drops the water level here about 3 feet in the winter and its amazing how many things stick out of the water just 3 feet down off the main channel.

Cool pics.

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Those pictures remind me of seeing lake Lanier during the drought a few years back. I've never been down there in TN except going to Nashville airport. It sure looks beautiful down there.
About 12 years ago they worked on our dam and the water was out for the whole season, fortunately I didn't have a boat yet. Grass grew all over the lake bottom and looked like a hay field, not cool!!
Now they let the water out 4-5 ft on or about oct 15. refill after the first hard freeze. Till spring having
fun w the 4-wheeler. Keep those pics coming till they drain it all down. Nick

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Actualy Lake Blue Ridge is in GA even though it is managed by TVA... It is about 15 miles south of Copper Hill TN. The lake was made by damming up the Toccoa river. It is one of the few rivers in the world that flow North. It flows North to TN. When it crosses the TN border the name changes to the Ocoee river. This ultimately flows into the Tennessee River, hence the TVA management.

FYI The Ocoee was where all of the Olympic kayaking was held in the '96 Atlanta games: http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/ocoee/

So our lake is where the water comes from for these rapids. Here are some pics of me and the Family doing some rafting !



This is me in the middle of the raft falling over with my eyes shut

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Lake is down over 75 Feet now. The repairs to the penstock are coming along nicely and they plan to start the refill on April 1. Here are some new pics...

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There are some awfully nice docks there. Is there any concern about structural damage from all the twisting from sitting on uneven ground for so long?

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

It has taken 6 to 7 months to drain the lake so how long are they thinking it will take to fill it back up? Will you even be able to boat up there this year?

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Current Boat: 2000 Four Winns 298 Vista
Previous Boat: 2000 Carver 406MY

Should be full pool sometime this summer. Good news is that Lake Nottely is only 20 minutes away...

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2003 Horizon 240 With 5.7 Volvo Penta

Any good finds on the bottom? I'd think I could kill a bunch of time just meandering the lake bed and seeing what I could find.

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2005 Horizon 210, 5.7L Volvo

I am sure that some of the docks that came to rest on really uneven ground will have some bending/twisting..

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http://www.tva.com/river/blueridge.htm
http://www.tva.com/river/blueridge_historic_pics.htm
The latest milestone for the project is the completion of the soldier pile wall. This wall, which holds back the soil at the construction site, had to be completed before workers could begin excavating down to the penstock. Excavation to the penstock is currently underway.


Inside the penstock, workers have removed the bulging section of the steel liner and begun the process of demolishing a huge (one-foot thick, 172-feet long) concrete support beam.


Work to repair and stabilize the upstream face of the dam also is proceeding smoothly. Workers have finished replacing the riprap on the bottom third of the dam and have begun putting down a layer of course sand on the middle section.

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