Missouri residents upset by order to move lake homes

Artesia News ^ | 11/06/2011

[KC Burke]

Lake of the Ozarks, MO) — Congresswomen Vicky Hartzler will be at the Lake of the Ozarks this week meeting with homeowners who are at risk of losing their homes. The meeting is Tuesday**

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says some properties sit too close to the shoreline and within the boundary of the Bagnell Dam project.

Hartzler along with Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill have all proposed legislation that would protect the rights of thousands of homeowners at the lake.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Lake of the Ozarks in unique because it was a private development, not a federal power project. It began life at Kansas City Power and Light in the 1920s but KCPL gave it up to Union Electric of St. Louis. UE bought up the property for the hydro power lake, built the dam and then created a real estate company to sell off lake shore not needed for the project.
They had every right to do this since they had bought the river basin and surrounding land. Wife's grandfather dairy farmed on the floor of what is now MM 5 of the Big Niangua, one of several rivers that flow into the Osage River, dammed by the Bagnel Dam.

[KC Burke]

Ferc reply for re-hearing below
http://www.lakeexpo.com/app/FERC.pdf

[KC Burke]

Ferc reply for re-hearing below
http://www.lakeexpo.com/app/FERC.pdf