Mountain Lake resort launches renaissance
Radford University engineering geology professor Skip Watts (left) and MS Contracting supervisor Mike Sayers watch workers move rocks and mud at Mountain Lake in Giles County in an effort to patch the lake’s slow leak. | Matt Gentry, The Roanoke Times
A comprehensive, multimillion-dollar overhaul of Mountain Lake Hotel and Resort, including “fixing” the leaking lake that has been nearly empty since 2008, is under way.
The plan, announced in November, is an effort to keep a thriving operation atop Salt Pond Mountain, where a resort of some sort has operated since about 1870.
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My feeling is that if the new owners will run grass fed beef in the lake bottom the pond will expand as the cattle walk around the expanding pond. I beleive this is how the integrity of the lake bottom was first established during the civil war. I found a history in the Virginia Tech library. Just fence in a herd of cattle and watch it fill up.
Comment by Ray Roberts — February 6, 2013 @ 12:30 pm
The lake was there thousands of years before the civil war. letting farm animals walk around doesnt magically make a lake.
Comment by sam smith — April 6, 2013 @ 11:35 am