Future Projects: Cooperative Planning to Prevent Sediment from Entering the Lake

• Implement Periodic sediment measurement and plan maintenance dredging in tributaries

• Continue to seek RELSWCD and VDOT assistance to mitigate on-going erosion and sediment from VDOT 460/Timberlake Road interchange from entering Timberlake via Buffalo Creek

• Timberlake Trustees explore partnership with RELSWCD and Peaks of Otter SWCD on conservation projects such as stream bank stabilization and water/sediment management strategies to mitigate heavy sediment entering Timberlake from Browns Creek.

• THA Grant Committee seek grant funds, programs and opportunities, to implement strategies to mitigate upstream erosion and sediment from entering Timberlake.

Hot Air balloon travels over Timberlake on a cool Fall morning