To: Cicero
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.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
43 posted on
11/11/2011 10:37:19 AM PST by
KC Burke
To: Eric in the Ozarks
44 posted on
11/11/2011 10:37:24 AM PST by
KC Burke
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