NORTH ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Visitors at Lackawanna State Park are getting a rare glimpse of what lies beneath the water as the manmade lake has been drained for the first time since 1999.<\/p>\n
Lee Dillon, Lackawanna State Park manager, says that the lake is drained right now so crews can do some maintenance on the lake’s dam. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe work that we\u2019re doing this time does require us to take the water out from the back of it or out from behind it,” Dillon said.<\/p>\n
Dillon says crews have been draining the manmade lake since after Labor Day with hopes of completing construction on the dam by early next year.<\/p>\n
Now, this isn\u2019t the first time Lake Lackawanna has been drained like this before. The last time it happened was back in 1999. <\/p>\n
Some folks took pictures on their phone; others brought out their metal detectors to see if they could find some buried treasure underneath all the mud.<\/p>\n
While you can walk across the old roadway, Dillon says you should avoid setting foot in the wet-looking mud after a young woman needed to be rescued from the mud over the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you step in that, it\u2019s very easy to get sucked down in and you kind of suction cup into it,” Dillon said.<\/p>\n
In addition, Dillon is not only encouraging folks to be careful when exploring the drained lake; he is also calling on the public\u2019s help to recover a historic artifact stolen from the old bridge this past week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the original build plaque from 1932 from the Department of Highways. Unfortunately, somebody did chisel that off the bridge structure itself,” Dillon said.<\/p>\n
Dillon says they are still looking for any information that may lead to the plaque recovery and anyone with information is asked to report it to the Chief Ranger Rick Bacon at 570-945-3239.<\/p>\n
But as visitors continue to visit the State Park the rest of the year and see the drained lake, Dillon says that visitor safety is a top priority.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to make sure that everybody that comes, everybody comes out and enjoys and sees things that haven\u2019t been seen and won\u2019t be seen for a very long time, but we want to make sure everybody makes it home safe,” Dillon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Visitors at Lackawanna State Park are getting a rare glimpse of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-304682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}