The Colony is one of the first Lewisville Lake communities organizing a shoreline clean-up to help deal with all the debris left from flooding.
Now that all the water is starting to rapidly recede at Lewisville Lake the next order of business is to clean up what’s left.
Leaders in The Colony are hosting a community shoreline cleanup on Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to noon. Volunteers can sign up online and meet at Stewart Creek Park to get started.
The reason for the event is obvious to most who have walked the Lewisville Lake shore recently.
The floods left behind a ring of silt, dirt, and mostly garbage. All of the debris can be hazardous and needs to go before leaders can even think about reopening lake parks, said city representative Blaine Crimmins.
As of Friday, Lewisville Lake was about 7.5 feet about conservation pools still, but the level had dropped about a foot from the Friday before.
The Army Corps of Engineers still has most of their parks and boat ramps closed as well.
Other issues that need to be addressed in those flooded out parks include damaged trails, driveways, picnic areas, and other infrastructure.
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Crimmins is hopeful that with the rapidly receding waters and these cleanup efforts that they will be able to get their parks reopened before the summer is out.
"We're a lakeside community, so this is a big source of recreation for the people that live here, and the sooner it's cleaned back up the sooner people can get back out here,” said Crimmins.
