Talk:High Rock Lake

GA?

Per this discussion, Dennis Brown (talk · contribs) and I have agreed to start working on this article to make this a GA. Here are some things that Dennis mentioned:

• A French company started the project, abandoned it and sold the thing to someone else about 100 years ago.
• There is plenty of available information that makes the lake unique.
• The Alcoa elements are outdated and need to be fixed up.

My concerns here are that there is no history about it, but there is plenty of books about it. If we have sources, please post them here. Also, the lead section needs to be expanded to three-four paragraphs and a word of caution, we must be careful not to violate WP:NPOV. If anyone have sources or have any further suggestions, please post them here. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 00:27, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Sources to use

Meanwhile, here are some sources that I found via WorldCat.org:

• North Carolina. Office of Water and Air Resources (1975). Special report: status of pollution control and water quality, High Rock Lake. The Section. OCLC 50096682.
• Weiss, Charles Manuel (1981). The water quality of the rivers and tributaries of the Upper Yadkin Drainage Basin and its impact on High Rock Lake. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. OCLC 8089186.

I will add more as I go along. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 00:39, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

• Origins: I've checked Google and my Highbeam account, I can't find anything ever written about the actual start of the lake, 100 years ago. That is discouraging. There is probably something buried in Alcoa files, or USGS files, and that is where I will look next, although those are lesser sources. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 12:51, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

  Actually, the smelting plant was bought off the French company. This is very vague but the best I've found, and covers the other lakes. It is difficult to cover High Rock without mentioning the other 3 lakes in the chain. This link shows the name of the French company as L’Aluminum Français, which is more related to Badin, but it was the reason the High Rock dam was built, to smelt aluminum. While they don't run the smelter anymore, it is impossible to cover the lake without covering the 80 years or so the dam was used for smelting. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 12:54, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

• source on fishing, Field and Stream
• Interesting fact about Daniel Boone
• more fishing
• Trading Ford, now covered by HRL
• Trading Ford and more
• More Daniel Boone
• Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 15:03, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Links.

These references (2, 3) of the article http://www.ncgameandfish.com/fishing/bass-fishing/nc_aa073803a/index.html | http://www.campingfriend.com/error.asp?strErr=Customer+Data+is+missing&strPage=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecampingfriend%2Ecom%2FHighRockLakeMarinaandCampground%2FDefault%2Easp%3F lead to error pages. How can we fix that? Can you help? NickDimou 13:46, 29 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by NickDimou (talk • contribs)

• Using the wayback machine, the first one can be fixed with http://web.archive.org/web/20080724163759/http://www.ncgameandfish.com/fishing/bass-fishing/nc_aa073803a/index.html. The rest probably can as well. Using the wayback machine http://archive.org/web/ is common, it archives webpages all the time, then you can bring back to life a dead link. Just put in the link, and look at the calender, and find a time when it indexed that page when it was "whole". It usually only takes a minute or less each. I'm working on some other stuff, about to call a client as well, but will get to these eventually if you don't. Learning to use the wayback machine is a good idea, btw. It is pretty easy. Dennis 2¢ 14:55, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
  • I think I got it, so I will give it a try! Thanks! NickDimou 16:47, 29 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by NickDimou (talk • contribs)

• This external link http://www.alcoa.com/yadkin/en/environment/drought_plan.asp is not updated monthly. It stopped on March 5, 2009. So we must change the "(updated monthly)" to "(last update March 2009)". I think it's rational. NickDimou 17:16, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
  • Sounds right. They are legally supposed to update it regularly, but like so much else, they ignore it. Dennis 2¢ 17:24, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

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