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!
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.)
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.
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....
| 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 15 -- 68 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.
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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