On Koshkonong residents divided over next step in court battle

Posted on May 15 at 11:35 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

The Lake District must keep fighting the 'good fight' for plus 7.2" of additional summer water level. It's the difference between needing a 300 foot pier or 100 foot pier to safely moor a boat on Kosh.

The following is from the DNR's Pier Regulation information:

Figure 2. Pier Length
A pier may extend to the greater of:
A.) the three-foot water depth, or
B.) where there is adequate depth for mooring a boat,
or using a boat hoist or boat lift.

With the existing, meager summer lake levels, how far out do you really need to go with a pier to reach 3-foot of water, enough to moor an average size Koshkonong boat? Does the DNR weigh the safety issues of extremely long piers jetting into navigable waters vs. giving us a reasonable amount of water to float a boat? I really don't think the DNR took our big lake into consideration when writing their pier regulations. The right hand of the DNR doesn't seem to know what the left is doing, again. The wetlands group? ...it smells of self-serving 'land barron' mentality. It's a worth while investment to let our little Lake District be the giant killers. Go ahead, fight the 'good fight' for us to the end! Quiting now would be a definite loss. T.