Is Roosevelt Park open or not?

dhanson928 · Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 99

Keep the state of Waahington the ---- away from Roosevelt! They spend more money on keeping us OUT of public areas. Take a look at Dougs...It was just fine before they spend hundreds of thousands on fences and ranger trucks and all that. Take a look at Rowland Lake, the Syncline trail, Katherine Creek, Columbia Hills park, etc etc.. Love all the new Washington State fences and signs...... and boy, are those vault toilets cool! not.

It's kinda sad when places are 'discovered' and then everybody wants to "Fix em".

Never heard about the stuck boring machine but I do remember the abandoned WPPS nuclear reactors...THAT was dumb...

Mulekick84 · Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 407

Ha ha! Same story back here. No money to enhance services, but an endless budget for enforcement! The CORP guys get brand new Ford Trucks every two years. A huge fleet, too. Then they put a dual 200 HP mercury motor patrol boat on our local lake. Its so big it has a machine gun platform on the front deck. No gun yet, but I suspect its only a matter of time. They also have 3-4 other standard size patrol boats to hassle all skiers. We get pulled over almost every time we are at the lake to do a life jacket, fire extinguisher,horn, and throwable check. "WE ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOU FROM YOURSELF!"

I'm talking about a small lake, too, think Floras with a PT Fleet!

starfish · Joined: 14 Apr 1996 Posts: 202

Mulekick which lake it this? I want to make sure we stay away. We have water skied 60 days the last two years on the Columbia at hood river.
I have seen the boat patrol once or twice. Never even talked to them.
Yes you must protect us from ourselves.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

Park open, bathrooms closed, porta potties often overflowing, lazy guys pissing on the ground all day 20 feet upwind of campers. It's a health hazard we need to mention to the Corps ... unless it simply prompts a park closure.

The $13k annual water expense is mostly due to the costs of monitoring and maintaining the uv purification system necessary to make the shallow well's water useable. Drums of chlorine pumped into the well were insufficient; I'm guessing that the now-closed RV tank dump was too close to the well.

And with no water, there's no camp host. Besides, false complaints to the Corps from individuals who want to run the park by their own set of (non-)rules got the best host Roosie ever had permanently fired.