To Vernon and Linda Myers, thank you for your extensive letter to the editor of the Palatka Daily News encouraging something positive to do with that dad-gummed Rodman/Kirkpatrick Dam.

My wife and I have only a decade watching and listening to the back and forth. Bass fishing is great. Manatees use the locks. Many bank fishermen depend on the impoundment as food. It’s been a lifetime during which nature has adjusted to a new normal. With every drawdown, lakes for miles around drop 3 feet, all but going dry; that will become permanent…