Lake Odessa for the People, Inc.

 "Lake Odessa for the People", is a newly formed non profit proactive group organized to communicate a message to our local, state, and federal legislators and selected people who might be able to help revitalize Lake Odessa and thus enhance the quality of life and the economic situation of Louisa County, IA and the surrounding area.

The message from the group is the need to maintain an adequate minimum water level of 4.75' in Lake Odessa year round to enhance fishing, hunting, boating, and recreational activity and to put back the picnic tables and restrooms that were once at Schafer's access.

This can be done at no cost by gravity flow of water through control structures or by dredging. We are not trying to raise the water level.

Question what you read and hear!

(Duck counts, 4th best hunting season at Lake Odessa, 95% of wetlands gone in Iowa, 60000 visitors to the Lake a year.)

Watch here for details.

 

 The photo below was taken in 1959 at Schafer's Access to Lake Odessa. The peak duck count in Lake Odessa was 200,180 in 1966. Proof that the Lake supported high levels of all types of activities. In 2007, the peak count was 38000.

 Listen to Johnnie Crain being interviewed about Lake Odessa 12/21/07
   
 

Interview with Johnnie Crain on Coffee Club Talk Show on KWPC 860 AM broadcast on 12/21/07.

This is the last 27 minutes of the show about Lake Odessa.

johnniecrain@machlink.com

 

"It's a misconception that we want to raise the Lake. We just don't want to lower it."

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Comment on Radio interview: The Lake was created as a by product of building the Mississippi River levees. It wasn't created for a specific purpose. The inlet and outlet tubes were installed in 1954.

 The photo below was taken in June, 2007 at Lake Odessa, North end.  
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