11th Annual Light Up Lakewood

Friday, December 6 from 6pm - 9pm

Across from Whole Foods at Gaston & Abrams

Take pictures with Santa Claus, Face Painting, Petting Zoo and many other Family Activities.

Special performances by Lipscomb Choir, Woodrow Variations Choir and Restoration Blues.

Share the joy of the season by bringing a toy. 3rd annual toy drive hosted by Lakewood Service League to Benefit East Dallas Charities.

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“That buys them time,” Richard Akin says, “but it’s not going to be the end-all solution, because it’ll keep moving in.”

Because the entire peninsula is manmade, he explains, all of it is at risk of eventually eroding away, especially if no e ort is made to control it.

In the end, the city will have to determine how to protect the shoreline.

Chris Maman with EBG Engineering has surveyed the eroding sites, and Tim Abrams with Terracon performed a “geo-technical” soil analysis in September. Another engineer, Chris Robertson with Hayward Baker, will take the results from both entities and work with the city to determine the best solution.

They have several options for how to armor the shoreline: “One of the ways they can do that is concrete walls, which is very expensive, or riprap walls, which are hydrostatically more appealing,” Richard Akin says.

Baker will brainstorm some designs, and then the park department will give them the green or red light.

Armoring the eroding areas of the lake likely will cost about $200,000, Lis Akin says. So fundraising — and lots of it — is in order.

Leong Lim, program manager with engineering and site development in the park department, says the city tried to obtain funding for erosion control in the 2012 bond package, but it didn’t get the go-ahead.

Then the shoreline fell three more feet over the summer.

“We were kind of torn because there’s no funding for this,” Lim explains.

Lucky for the city, For the Love of the Lake is already on it, searching for both funding and volunteer services from community members who are willing to pitch in and help stave o erosion — for a while, at least.

“You’re not going to stop it; it’s going to happen,” Richard Akin says. “It’s erosion control, not prevention. But with maintenance, as long as it’s cared for, it could last indefinitely.”

For the Love of the Lake wants construction to start around the beginning of the year, but as with anything involving politics, there’s a process by which the organization has to abide. Members will have to present all the gathered information to the White Rock Lake task force and the park board, and because it’s a public park, they’ll also have to obtain a permit for the work. Once construction begins, sections will have to be closed to the public.

FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN DONATING to the erosion project, visit whiterocklake.org. Or the mailing address is 381 Casa Linda Plaza, PMB 281, Dallas, TX 75218.

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