ShareAmeren Missouri filed an amended Lake of the Ozarks boundary plan with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on January 31. This plan which would increase property owner sovereignty down to the 662 foot contour, with a few modifications on a case by case basis for lakefront houses which are lower than that elevationThe boundary [...]

ShareNov 18, 2011
Ameren Missouri officials announced a timeline for submitting their proposal to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to resolve the issue of encroachments with the Project Boundary at the Lake of the Ozarks. Ameren Missouri will submit its proposal in the first quarter of 2012, well in advance of FERC’s June 2012 deadline
“We [...]

ShareThe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a press release November 10, clarifying its position on the management of the Lake of the Ozarks shoreline. In the press release posted below, resolution of and responsibility for management issues related to the shoreline are explicitly given to Ameren Missouri, the successor corporation to Union Electric Co., [...]

ShareAccording to a report on Missourinet today, Representatives Vicky Hartzler introduced and the entire Missouri Congressional delegation have co-sponsored H.R. 3244, The Landowner Protection Act of 2011, to prevent the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from action on plans at Lake of the Ozarks, to remove 4000 homes, docks, gazebos, and other structures which they [...]

Share(From MDC’s Fresh Afield Blog)
by Tim Smith
Missouri Dept. of Conservation
The invasive exotic zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is native to the Caspian Sea region of Asia but was accidentally brought to North America in the ballast water of an international ship in 1986. Since then, the mussels have rapidly reproduced and infested waters throughout the Great [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
I don’t have land at Lake of the Ozarks. Like many other Missourians, though, I’ve been inculcated from school onward with the idea that the land the lake occupies was purchased by Union Electric Company in the late 1920s, and that land and the dam, which closed in 1931, are private property, [...]

ShareLake Ozark waterfront homes have been placed under threat of removal due to a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruling, according to a story released by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today.Citing a ruling by FERC issued July 26, the story says all or part of 4000 lakefront homes will need to be removed to come into [...]

ShareBacteria on the beach. Blech.
For most of us, most of the time, we’d rather not think about it.
By Jo Schaper
After bacterial issues during 2010 closed major state park swimming beaches for summer weeks on end, and resulted in a major shakeup inside the Department of Natural Resources, the weekly bacteria report became as [...]

ShareGet out your big fishing lures with diaphanous wings, bulky bodies and big red eyes.
The cicadas are here. This is brood 19 of 13-year cicadas, and they’ve come out of the ground looking for cicada love.
The cicadas are here.
By Jo Schaper
If you want to see the show, go outside in the early [...]

ShareIt’s spring and an outdoors person’s fancy turns to thoughts of river gages.
Since many Traveler readers have the same obsession Jo does about river and lake water levels…whether for floating, floods, to know if you can get into your own driveway or sheer curiosity, I’m listing a few online river gage pages: