Posted on October 28, 2026
The Lake Logan Association (LLA), which formed in late 2023 to work toward restoring Lake Logan to a healthier condition, got some good news in June of this year, when the state Legislature approved over $1.7 million in funding to remove silt from the lake by dredging.
Now, however, LLA leadership is cautioning the group’s members that they shouldn’t expect the dredging to start any time soon, as the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which is in charge of lake dredging in the state and will decide how the money is spent, is still working out details on the project.
These include, perhaps most importantly, the choice and acquisition of a dredge material relocation area (DMRA), which is a piece of land where the silt dredged from the lake can be deposited. And though LLA has inquired about whether ODNR would consider alternative, possibly faster and less expensive approaches to getting the silt out of the lake, the agency has expressed little interest in pursuing them.
After a meeting in February of state officials, LLA members and other interested parties, The Logan Daily News reported that ODNR had apparently narrowed down a list of 14 potential DMRA sites to two top candidates. One was a 17-acre parcel on Lake Logan Road that the owner is willing to sell to the state for $1.15 million. The other is a Blosser Road property, part of which its owners are willing to lease to the state for six years at $18,000 annually.
LLA President Maria Diaz Myers expressed concerns last week that the Lake Logan Road site, which she suggested ODNR now appears to favor, has a price tag that would eat up some two-thirds of the $1,725,000 in state funding that’s been allocated for the dredging project. The group is hoping to get the state to consider alternatives to traditional dredging that will allow more of the funding to go toward cleaning up the lake.
With that in mind, Myers reported, LLA has consulted with a dredging firm, which drafted a proposal to use a process called mechanical dewatering to remove 50,000 cubic feet of silt from the lake and put it on the Blosser Road property. The owner of that site is reportedly now willing to accept the dredged material for use on his farm, at no charge to the state. (The dredging company also estimates, however, that Lake Logan contains about 250,000 cubic feet of silt.)
After a meeting in February of state officials, LLA members and other interested parties, The Logan Daily News reported that ODNR had apparently narrowed down a list of 14 potential DMRA sites to two top candidates. One was a 17-acre parcel on Lake Logan Road that the owner is willing to sell to the state for $1.15 million. The other is a Blosser Road property, part of which its owners are willing to lease to the state for six years at $18,000 annually.
LLA President Maria Diaz Myers expressed concerns last week that the Lake Logan Road site, which she suggested ODNR now appears to favor, has a price tag that would eat up some two-thirds of the $1,725,000 in state funding that’s been allocated for the dredging project. The group is hoping to get the state to consider alternatives to traditional dredging that will allow more of the funding to go toward cleaning up the lake.
With that in mind, Myers reported, LLA has consulted with a dredging firm, which drafted a proposal to use a process called mechanical dewatering to remove 50,000 cubic feet of silt from the lake and put it on the Blosser Road property. The owner of that site is reportedly now willing to accept the dredged material for use on his farm, at no charge to the state. (The dredging company also estimates, however, that Lake Logan contains about 250,000 cubic feet of silt.)
LLA has a membership meeting scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 13 at 4 p.m. at the Logan-Hocking County District Library in Logan.
