SCUBA DIVERS

 The Johnson County Sheriff Dive Team was out at Sweetwater Beach today updating their scuba diving dredentials.  Water was clear and surface temperature was 68 degrees.  It was 60 degrees 30 feet down!

BEAUTIFUL DOGWOODS

 As a backdrop for the redbud trees,  the dogwoods are now in bloom. What a beautiful spring!

ROAD CLEAN UP

 A brave group of volunteers appeared today for the annual Nineveh Road Cleanup arranged by Carrie Vavul.  The Cordry Sweetwater Lot Owners and birthday girl Brenda Malden provided a breakfast at 7:00 AM and the clean up began at 8:00 AM.  The were so many volunteers that we were finished by 9:30 AM.  Thanks to all!

SPRING REDBUDS

 Finally! Warm weather has arrived bringing beauty to the area.  The redbuds are in bloom this week which means the dogwoods will be out soon.  

GETTING READY FOR SPRING/SUMMER

 The Conservancy employees have been busy recently with numerous landscaping projects.  The entrance to the Conservancy office looks much better with new landscaping gravel.  Lots of work at Sweetwater Beach with new playground equipment and new rip rap on the points at each end of the beach.  Extra grading work at the launch ramp.  All looks good!

HIGH WATER!

 A couple of severe rains in the past couple of weeks have closed the lakes due to high water levels.  Four inches of rain this past Friday and Saturday have put Cordry on "Yellow" and Sweetwater on "Red."

GLOBAL WARMING!

For the first time since the beginning of Cordry and Sweetwater Lakes,  the main bodies of both lakes failed to freeze over.  In recent years, we enjoyed ice fishing, hiking, skating,

and snowmobiling, on the lakes.  It was also interesting to hear the ice "cracking" as it expanded and contracted.  Friends tell me that Sweetwater froze over to a thickness of 3 feet in 1978.  (Year of the '78 Blizzard)