Homeowners to Toast Lake Lindero Cleanup
Agoura Hills homeowners who drained their neighborhood recreation lake 10 months ago so they could bulldoze tons of silt and debris from its 13.5-acre bottom will celebrate the end of their $471,000 cleanup with champagne and cake today.
Instead of sunny weather, residents in the 1,000-house Lake Lindero area will be hoping for rain during their noontime party.
They have optimistically scheduled the celebration indoors at the Lake Lindero Country Club.
“We hope we can refill the lake naturally, without having to buy water to put in it,” said Dave Francis, manager of the lake and the country club.
Homeowners decided to empty the lake after discovering that silt washed from upstream had clogged it within inches of its surface in many places. The concrete-sided lake was built 13 years ago with an average depth of eight feet.
Once the water was out, about 100,000 cubic yards of mud remained. The 571 dues-paying members of the Lake Lindero Homeowners Assn., who own the lake and country club, voted last fall to assess themselves $16 a month for the next 10 years to finance the cleanup.
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