Welcome to DLPOA.Com

The Home Page of the Deer Lake Property Owner's Association.

Last Updated 5/11/08

There are probably a million Deer Lakes in this country. We are located in the State of Washington, about 30 miles North of Spokane, Washington on US 395. (See Maps). Our lake is a litle over a mile in diameter, and somewhat shaped like a frying pan, with the handle being the inlet for the lake. There are about 800 houses on this lake, with about half belonging to the DLPOA.

If you would like to join DLPOA ($20/year) please contact one of the officers of the organization.  You will get the newsletter, and a vote in the elections.  Maybe you can even serve some time on the Board of Directors!

Contact Us

You can write us at DLPOA, PO Box 250, Loon Lake, Wa 99148. 
Our newsletter person can be reached at demattia(at)acm.org.
Or, you can email a few of the officers.  You will have to use your Amiche to contact the rest. 
You can contact your humble webmaster at demattia(at)acm.org. 
(You of course all know that you have to substitute the '@' for '(at)', this format is just a spam preventor.)

Coming Events!

Note -- New Board Meeting time of 6PM
• Spring Cleanup & Chilli Feed -- Sat May 17
• Dock Demo Day -- Sat June 7
• Annual Meeting -- Sat June 14 (firestation)
• Fireworks -- Thurs Night July 3
• Parade and stuff -- Fri July 4
• Pancake Feed -- Sun July 6
• Next Board Meeting -- Thurs Sept 11
• Fall Cleanup -- Sat Sept 20

New Stuff On this site

Full board notes for May 2008 (see Boardnotes).
Note that the board CHANGED the prior policy of not publishing the board notes until after the next meeting. We are now publishing them right after the meetings, with the provisio that these are not the Official board notes until they get blessed at the next meeting.

Summer 2008 Newsletter and Report on the 2007 Annual Meeting
Note that starting with the Summer 08 newsletter, newsletters will be in PDF format, not HTML. You will need an adobe acrobat reader to read them.
New list of Officers for 2006 - 2008.
Pictures I have been unable to put on several fine pictures of our lake that I have received this last year. I hope to get time this summer to do some of that.

Coming soon: I plan to have a series of pictures of houses as seen from the lake.  These pictures will be grouped by lake areas, and ideally will be sequential as you travel around the lake.  This whole project will take probably more than a year to complete.  You will (soon) find it under the "Tour de Lac" link.
The 2007 4th of July parade pictures are here.
I regret that I had battery problems with my camera for the last third of the parade. I missed all the boats following the boat that had the cutout of the statue of liberty before I could get things fixed.
I have pictures from 2004, 2005 and 2006 boat parades, and would be happy to send you a hi def version of any of these pictures by email.

There is now boat gas available at Deer Lake Resort.
Water Temperature (For past temps, see Lake Temperature Chart
The ice finally melted....
Sept 15 -- 68 degrees

About Mid March 2006	March 10 2007	2008
Apr 30 -- 49 degrees	April 12 -- 41 degrees	April 15 -- Ice finally melts
May 07 -- 52 degrees		May 3 -- 44 degrees
May 14 -- 54 degrees	May 12 -- 58 degrees
May 21 -- 64 degrees!!
May 28 -- 60 degrees	May 27 -- 59 degrees
June 4 -- 63 degrees	June 3 -- 62 degrees
June 11 -- 65 degrees	June 23 -- 66 degrees
July 2 -- 73 degrees	July 4 -- 73 degrees
July 9 -- 75 degrees	July 15 -- 75 degrees
July 18 -- 77 degrees!!	July 21 -- 76 degrees
July 23 -- 76 degrees	July 28 -- 74 degrees
August 2 -- 72 degrees	August 5 -- 73 degrees
August 9 -- 70 degrees	August 12 -- 71 degrees
Sept 3 -- 68 degrees	Sept 2 -- 68 degrees
Sept 17 -- 64 degrees
Sept 24 -- 60 degrees
Oct 8 -- 59 degrees	Oct 7 -- 54 degrees
Jan 13 2007 -- Lake Finally Frozen Over	Jan 20 2008
Feb 8 2007 -- Still Frozen Over
March 8 2007 -- Still Frozen Over	April 10 2008 -- Still frozen Over

Board Meetings

Board meetings are the Second Thursday of most months except the summer ones and December.  Everybody is welcome to come.  Generally there are cookies.  The meetings will be in the basement of the Salvation Army Dining Hall.  As of March 2008, meetings start at 6PM!!!

See above for when the next board meetings will be.

Click here for a list of the current Officers and Committees of Dlpoa. We now have the Board Meeting notes online, in addition to the past newsletters.  Please go to the Newsletters page for more information.

I am trying to get a complete archive of the old newsletters.  I now have most of the newsletters in the past archives .  If you have old Deer Lake photos, remberances, oral histories, whatever, I would like to add them to our site.  Please contact me and I can scan in whatever you have.

The plan for this site is to have sections on Dlpoa Information, maps, weather, local media, contributed pictures of the lake area, and a classified section that will let us know just where to find somebody to fix our faucets or build us a shed. 

• Newsletters and other DLPOA membership stuff (officers, bylaws, etc)
• Maps of the area
• Pictures of the Lake
• News and Weather
• Resorts and Public Access to the lake
• Shopping and Businesses in the area (Beige Pages) 
• Lake Houses for Rent
• Lake Houses for Sale
• Eurasian Milfoil
• Fire Protection
• Boating Rules

 

Water Quality Report is a 2005 report produced by the Spokane Tribal Labs on the water quality in Deer Lake and vicinity. It is rather technical, and does provide some historical comparitions.

Comments on this site can be sent to demattia (at) acm.org .  Please start sending scanned pictures of the lake area, and suggestions about local businesses you have dealt with.

If you are looking for the Donner Lake Property Owner's Association, You entered the wrong URL. You really want www.dlpoa.org
For more information on Deer Lake and other lakes, please see Online Hiways.
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