This is what I found as I drove down the dirt road to John Taylor’s fishing concession on The Rock Quarry Lakes at Rte 17 in Maysville, NC. This is just before you turn left into to the road to the ramp. The road is completely washed out leaving a deep ravine!
The Lakes were completely filled up and flooded and the water backed up to as high as the eves on the bathroom in The White Oak Family Campground. The water coming down the White Oak River had no place to go so it went into the woods and across the field and the road to the Lakes and dug this ravine in the process. In fact it also dug another larger and deeper one before you get to the concession buildings. It did not get into his buildings.
Those are John Taylor’s concession buildings in the back ground with the larger ravine in the middle. I took eight more pictures but they did not take.
That is John Taylor fishing at his favorite spot. He caught a string of very large shell crackers yesterday. He said the people
who own the land will fill in the roads and get him back in business right away.
On my way home from our trip Wednesday I stopped at the Quarry Lakes office. Fortunately the local quarry headman was there and also is the headman of Martin-Marietta in Raleigh. I asked them if we could use an access on their premises to clean up the trash on the lake shores. They said we could but asked us to wait until they stopped pumping water out of the huge new lake in which they are now working.They will let us know when they stop pumping.
John drove me down to the ramp and everything looked ok there. Looking across the lake you could see the mud line on the trees about 8 feet above the existing lake level.
We have got to find a way to stop the water from building up like this. Apparently the exit from the lakes is too narrow and clogged up with debris of all kinds.
John and I were saying our goodbyes when two Maysville policemen drove up. I took advantage of this meeting to tell them about the canal along Maple Street. This canal is the largest single source of trash in the White Oak River. The canal empties into a creek which in turn empties into Lake #2. They will talk to the Mayor to see what can be done about it. Elmer