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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (10973)	6/30/2001 8:54:34 AM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

I was there before it was built. My father-in-law at the time worked for the Army Corps of Engineers. He was a land buyer on the Rend Lake project. It was neat to see it turn from farms into a giant reservoir. I thought it was really something then; 19,000 acres and 100,000 acre-feet of water. When I moved to CA, the nearest reservoir was 3,000 acres and 1,100,000 acre-feet of water. What a difference a few mountains can make. Rend Lake averaged about 6 feet deep, the typical CA reservoir is 100's of feet deep. I used to fish a lot when I lived in Ill, only twice since moving to Cal. I lived in Mt. Vernon from 1967 to 1977. I almost bought a 15 acre place on a Rend Lake feeder stream about 10 miles north of the Lake. That was a big mistake not doing it; I should have robbed a bank or something. All woods with the stream running through it on one side; a gorgeous building site for a log cabin type home on a little 30 ft bluff overlooking a wild animal watering hole; a wide-spot in the stream with tracks of so many different animals, you couldn't count them all. My version of Paradise Lost. Now it's probably worth 20 times what I could have bought it for then ($15k) just for the value of the seclusion. Chas·sheddingtears