Public Response to Coward's Corner

From Janesville Gazette Sound-Off, July 6th;

On Lake Level: I live north of Janesville on the Rock River, and I'd like to know how the Koshkonong lake district's proposal to raise the water level will effect my water level. It would seem that if they hold back water for rich boaters on the lake, there will be less water for us. I'd like the lake district and the DNR to explain this clearly.

That person should take his head out of the paper bag; the Centerway Dam controls the river water level below Indianford. As for the District wanting to raise the lake level and then to say if we raise the lake level they won’t have any water is all BS as they will continue to get the same amount of water flow allowable according to the flows received in the lake. All the district would be doing is holding back 7.2 more inches after the periodic high flow periods, which would not affect the water flow above or below the Indianford Dam once the lake level of 776.8 was achieved.

Why don’t they make a formal request to the DNR to raise the river water level operating orders at the Centerway Dam?

I know the answer already, that would be too easy, it is always easier to blame someone else, which we all know so well, look at the LKWA, they were standing in line for $10,000 dollars to protect their wetlands, why didn’t they think about riprapping before the free money that the district secured for them in State Grants?

This is a Quote from the DNR’S Jon Bergquist, now retired. “The only way to protect the shoreline of Lake Koshkonong is to Armor it”.

Hope you post this.

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