DNR Pier Comment

Hi Brian,

Did you check out the new DNR proposed pier rulings that were voted on at the DNR Board Meeting on September 28th, 2005?

Kosh should have exemptions to some of the rules as Lake Geneva does for wave action. We should have an exemption for fluctuation in water depth.

The critical issue that I see is under hoists, lifts, & boat shelters... 'Lifts must be placed adjacent to a pier, wharf, or shoreline'.

If the DNR enforces their new rule, it pretty much puts the 'Ki-Bosh' on Kosh residents that place their lifts hundreds of feet out into the lake without an 'adjacent pier'.

We all know that the only reason Kosh residents do this is because they have to. How many people can really afford to purchase a $50,000.00 plus 500ft. pier? (which now, may NOT fall within the 'new guidelines' anyways).

Sure, its just another way to make the state money, by requiring pier permits ...but what was broke with the old DNR pier guidelines? Nothing.

It sure is amazing how the each segment of the DNR invents crap to protect their own jobs & paychecks at everyone else's expense! They are a shameless state agency.