Someone Is Draining Waste into the Lake Out of Burr Oak Lodge (and other problems)

I stayed at Burr Oak Lodge (run by Xantera Resorts) in Southern Ohio at the end of May. In addition to other cleanliness, trail, and service problems, I found two very dangerous-looking maintenance practices. Behind the lodge, which is where one is directed to go to find the trails, I saw two very problematic occurrences, of which I took pictures: 

1. The drain pipe coming out from under the lodge, positioned to run down the hill and into the lake.

(A) (Photos 1-4) The Lodge appears to be emitting something from a pipe, and that something is flowing down the hill into the lake. As you can see from these photos, whatever is being drained looks like waste, because it has cigarette butts in it!

2. Pipe: The pipe flow stream, a little farther down.

3. Pipe: The cigarette butts on the edges of the flow stream, obviously in this formation from the effects of the flow velocity of the liquid.

4. Pipe: The polluted drain waste flowing down into the lake. Note at the bottom left the flow stream, edges with cigarette butts as in the above photos. This is because this photo is simply a continuation of the same stream. As your eye moves down the hill, not the compressed grasses, the pathway the flow has made as it makes its way down to the lake. This indicated that at times the flow is strong, and it shows pretty conclusively that this pollution stream is making it down to the lake.

(B) (Photos 5, 6, & 7) There is a huge, deep hole in the walk-way, and there are no barriers, signs, or safety devices around it at all!

5. Hole: This big, deep hole is just sitting here in the middle of everything, totally open! What the uncovered, dangerous hole looks like as one walks up on it.

6. Hole: Another view of the uncovered hole.

7. Hole. It's deep! What if I, or a child, or anyone had fallen in to this?! What if it had been night and I hadn't seen it? I'm really worried someone is going to get hurt!

Burr Oak Lodge & Conference Center
Route 2, Box 159
Glouster, OH 45732-9536

Physical Address
10220 Burr Oak Lodge Road
Glouster, OH 45732