Lake Jackson has Drained

[squiffynole]

So amazing - the 4,000 acre lake on north side of Tallahassee drained into a sinkhole the last few days, bad things being found - next stop is Wakulla Springs.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/n...ssee-skeletal-remains-photos-sink/7582869002/

 

[RDCNoles]

I’ve seen it happen before. About 25 years ago. The hole was a big as my truck. A tallahassee native friend of mine says it happens every 20 years or so.

 

[bryanscho]

I’ve seen it happen before. About 25 years ago. The hole was a big as my truck. A tallahassee native friend of mine says it happens every 20 years or so.

This is true. I was in college last time it happened. Drove my truck out in to the lake.

 

[fsufool]

I’ve seen it happen before. About 25 years ago. The hole was a big as my truck. A tallahassee native friend of mine says it happens every 20 years or so.

Yep remember it happening back in the 1980s I believe.

 

[Seminolejon78]

The last time it happened a lot of muck was removed from the bottom by truckload to make the lake healthier. They had to repave Lake Shore Drive because the big dump trucks tore it up. If I recall right, this was in the 90s.

 

[F4Gary]

Note to self, don't go swimming in Lake Jackson...

 

[fsufool]

The last time it happened a lot of muck was removed from the bottom by truckload to make the lake healthier. They had to repave Lake Shore Drive because the big dump trucks tore it up. If I recall right, this was in the 90s.

According to reports the Lake drained 1836,1886, 1909, 1932, 1956, 1982, 1999 and 2006 and most recently in 2012. So happening more often of late.

 

[Seminolejon78]

Note to self, don't go swimming in Lake Jackson...

I actually have before but it was back in the 70s.

 

[F4Gary]

I actually have before but it was back in the 70s.

Thankfully the drain plug didn't get pulled.

 

[RDCNoles]

The last time it happened a lot of muck was removed from the bottom by truckload to make the lake healthier. They had to repave Lake Shore Drive because the big dump trucks tore it up. If I recall right, this was in the 90s.

About mid 90s. Maginus arm ? I believe. Most of the trucks I saw were coming up Crowder Rd by the Indian mounds.

 

[gwgwi]

My dad told me that folks used to plant corn in the lake bed when the lake drained. Don’t know if that was before or after the Big War.

 

[squiffynole]

My dad told me that folks used to plant corn in the lake bed when the lake drained. Don’t know if that was before or after the Big War.

I have no doubt! There is a history of corn growing, cattle and hog raising on the bed of Lake Iamonia which also drains from time to time through a sink hole toward its NE corner. I've read how cotton swept the area in the 1830's and 40's which lead to huge amounts of erosion and sedimentation, our house is near the top of a hill and there is like 2" of "topsoil" then it's hard clay.

Here is an interesting record of day to day life near Lake Jackson during the tenant farming days not so long ago -

https://www.talgov.com/Uploads/Public/Documents/parks/parks/phipps_book.pdf