Spring Time at Green Mountain Reservoir

The ice is off Green Mountain Reservoir! Finally we have a real sign of spring after 15 inches of snow on April 29th. Don Abbott at Heeney Marina has the gates open if he is around to inspect the boats (I’ve already seen one out there), the official opening date for the Marina is May 15th. Sounds like fishing has been pretty good from the bank too.

The forest service has published their plan for the improvements. Here’s a link. They will not be putting in the electric power or water wells. They will be putting in host sites, adding and moving camp sites, making highway 9 improvements and putting in a boat ramp at Cow Creek South campground.

Proposed changes at Green Mountain Reservoir

Last fall the forest service issued a plan to build a marina on the east side of Green Mountain Reservoir at Cow Creek South campground. That along with improving some campgrounds, adding water, dump station, boat storage, and other items would be paid for with a 1.3 million dollar stimulus grant.

Now the forest service as issued a draft environmental analysis of the project. You can see it at this link.

There is also a public meeting in Heeney at the community center (7000 County Road 30) on Thursday, April 8th at 5:30PM.

They are taking comments until April 15th.

Green Mountain Reservoir Improvement Plan

I did attend the open house at the forest service yesterday and got all the information I could. Now the Forest Service does have information at: http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/whiteriver/projects/green-mountain-reservoir/ These maps are huge files - If I can figure out a way to make they more reader friendly, I'll post it here. Here's a pdf file of the paperwork I picked up plus the feedback form. They what input by September 18th.