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When launching at Engineers Point at this level watch out for this metal beam! Especially before daylight!Attachment 325842Attachment 325843
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Whaaaat? Why would they leave a steel beam anywhere much less near boat launch?
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Good heads up. Someone might be able to attach a road barricade with a flashing light to it to alert daytime and nighttime boaters. Affixed in such a way as to rise and fall with water levels.
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That could Definitely ruin a fishing trip!!
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Wow !:yikes:yikes:yikes That could ruin a day for sure ! That definitely needs marked some how!
This year is the first time we have seen it. Been there when water was much lower and never noticed it. Heard someone damaged their boat and had contacted the COE.
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I sure hope they mark that booger because by the time I get down there with my memory that will be gone for sure:banghead
Wow! That would tare up some stuff in short order, thanks for the warning. Hard to see from the picture if it lines up with the other post, but wondering if that's a pile they drove for extending the dock? Seems like it would be round though, like the other support poles and not an I beam. Either way it should be marked for sure.
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UGH!
That’s crazy! Was there a few days ago and didn’t see it. Have launched there literally thousands of times and at lower levels than now, never seen it before. Wonder how it got there? It’s definitely been put there recently.
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If you haven’t seen it then hasn’t been there. I knew we hadn’t seen it before even when it was pulled down so low you could see the creek channel feeding the spillway. It is solid I beam steel. If it was put there by COE without marking it I don’t want to hear another word from them about safety.Quote:
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I’d hate to hit it
they need to remove it or at least pull one of those no wake buoys up there beside it. somebody is gonna get hurt.
It's a few inches under water now, if you look close enough you can see the current break over the top of it. We talked to a guy putting in this morning that hit and a guy when taking it out said he hit and had a nice dent in the side of his Tracker from it. The bad thing is when you launch the current wants to carry you over that way. It wasn't there earlier in the week and obviously it was placed there, doubt an old I beam floated from the old iron bridge on Coleman road down to engineer's point. Guess I will try contacting the Sardis COE in the morning to make sure their aware of it. Just glad you posted this warning maniac, if not it could have done a job on a my prop or glass hull today.
:popcorn:ThumbsUpI won't be launching there any time soon. The COE is taking a risk if something isn't done about it. jmoQuote:
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COE needs to remove that yesterday!!!
Wow. That was obviously placed by someone of authority without marking. How careless and unconcerned can ya get?
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They have to attach another length of beam onto that one to the height of the other beams. Then they can install the rest of the floating dock. The other beam laid in the parking lot for several weeks until people complained that it was taking up several parking slots, especially the handicap slot Last year they had an orange ball attached to it to mark it until it got knocked off.
There is a orange buoy on it as of this morning. I hit it and put a little ding on my War Eagle, glad I wasn’t in a glass boat! Sometimes it’s nice to be poor!
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Has there been any updated info on this..Does the Bouy still show?
With the 10 foot rise in water levels it is not an issue right now and I doubt we see those low levels again this year, curve will start rising again next week.
Now you can go over it with your sonar to see what it looks like
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