Ailing lake should soon be healthy

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From the Janesville Gazette

A healthy Delavan Lake isn’t far away.

Millions of dollars were sunk into the 2,072-acre body of water between 1989 and 1992 to eliminate rough fish and phosphorus-induced algae that made the lake muddy and green.

The water is much clearer, but phosphorus continues to pour into the lake. Carp and bullhead are again causing trouble.

...The lake is inextricably linked to the local economy, he said, and as the health of the lake improves, property values and tax revenues increase.

“These investments produce distinct, compounded and identifiable dividends,” Lemanski said.

Holst said improving Delavan Lake has been “a long, hard battle,” but the end of this series of projects is in sight.

The next step is to focus attention on the 26,000-acre watershed, working to prevent erosion and pollution from farmland that drains into the lake, he said.