The Trinity River Authority told us to drive cove delineation marker pilings out in the cove where the marina will be built. We used our phones to GPS locate them and they came out perfect, so perfect in fact, you could line them up visually and they were as perfect as can be! Amazing how good tech has gotten lately. Even a smart phone can GPS locate with accuracy so close that each of the piles were perfectly in line with one another…. by cell phone~!!! I would never have believed it if I hadn’t seen it first hand today.

These piles are temporarily marked with Blue LED solar battery lights. When the Channel Marker LED lamps come in, the marker piles will be cut off at 8′ above pool elevation and large 2.5 mile visibility amber lamps will be installed. Those will be permanent with a lifetime of 25,000 hours. They will blink 45 times per minute – per USACE marine regulation.

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Notice how loud the traffic is going by… MUCH louder than any vessel that will ever be housed at this marina. I cannot fathom receiving negative comments from anyone living on FM-356 about this project increasing noise levels when a car going by is 4 to 20 times louder than any motor boat on the lake. Marinas are almost always very quiet and low impact projects – as long as they are for vessel storage only. Landowners that do not purchase waterfront, and pay those taxes have no say as to what goes on on a lake controlled by the TRA and USACE. And we find it interesting that those people that do own property along the lake frontage have been completely silent. I wonder why that is?