To all our PLA members and those in our network who cherish Paradox Lake,

As you’ve either experienced first-hand, or are reading about in social media, the heavy rains in the recent week have raised the lake level to spring runoff levels. Unfortunately, this creates lots of problems when it happens in the summer. We want to communicate a few things to everyone:

• 1st, many of the danger buoys we place in the rocky shallows around the lake have floated and are probably not marking the danger points anymore. There are also miscellaneous docks, floats, boats, trees, and branches floating in the lake. Please be very careful if you take a boat out on the lake.
  

• 2nd, the very high water levels make dock and shorelines very susceptible to damage from boat wakes. If you must take your boat out on the lake, please respect the property of others and avoid creating a boat wake whenever possible while water levels remain high.
  

• 3rd, if you find someone’s floating property near your lakefront, please secure it and post a note about it on the Facebook Paradox Lake Association page so the owner can find it.
  

• 4th, we’ve attached a note below we received today regarding the Schroon Lake levels and the operation of the dam downstream of Schroon Lake. As you know, the Paradox Lake level rides on the water level in the Schroon River during times of high flow (like we have now) and so this info may help with understanding what we might expect from the Schroon River in the coming days.

Hoping you find this information helpful.

Bob Hauserman
President, Paradox Lake Association

Dear Good People: This is a FYI so please put out to the public.

The current high-water situation we have been managing and both gates have been opened since early last week.

We actually have been lucky that some of the heaviest rains totals have been all around us, but our water shed is so large that it's become unmanageable.

As all of you are aware, Mother Nature has thrown us a real curve ball, it is looking like Spring thaw time more than Summer drought.

We are dumping maximum water out of the dam, but the level is still raising.

Currently today at 2 PM the dam pond water level is 808.1, but Niel Chippendale is reporting that the water level is 813.2 at Schroon Village and still raising at the north end of the lake.

As you can see it is a 5-foot difference between the dam and the north end of the lake.

With the weather forecast calling for another 4 inches of rain we will be in flood condition more than likely.

I would strongly recommend that people around the lake that have boats attached to fixed docks pull them out of the water quickly as possible.

Docks will be under water and water levels will continue to raise

If they have floating docks, ask them to be sure that have securing lines back to stable fixed shore anchors.

We SLPD have no control of what water levels will be.

Thank You

Tom Luciano
SLPD
Adam Horowitz
Neil Chippendale