This letter has been submitted to both our elected official and GRDA management. It also has been submitted as a Letter to the Editor to our media distribution list in addition to being posted in the GLUE web site. FYI!

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Subject: Grand Lake Level

To our Legislative friends… both at the Federal & State level:

Those of us who work and play on Grand Lake remain mystified when the lake level is dropped to the dangerous elevation of 741’ each August prior to the Labor Day holiday. The lake is dropped annually to accommodate the ill fated Japanese Millet seeding program, which has proven to be a failure year-in and year-out. Either the hot baking sun and associated lack of rain takes its toll or “The Crop” is decimated by flooding before this proposed waterfowl food can reach maturity. What has proved futile in the past is about to become borderline insane.

Due to differences over funding this program, between the Grand River Dam Authority and state and federal wildlife representatives, the millet seeding program has been abandoned for this year. But yet the GRDA has no plans to deviate from the lake elevation curve mandating the lake be dropped in August to accommodate this seeding which isn’t going to happen. Would it really be too much to ask for the GRDA management, or our elected officials, to at least petition the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to adjust the lake target levels for 2010?

Rusty Fleming

Executive Director

Grand Lakers United Enterprise