Residents to weigh in on lakes improvement

Janesville Gazette

...The city soon will ask residents to take stock of how much they value Cravath and Tripp lakes and how much they would support efforts to improve the quality of the lakes.

...said the questionnaire will gauge three things:

--Economic value of the lakes;

--Social value of the lakes;

--Support for improvement of the lakes

...The group also hasn’t determined what type of organization would oversee improvement of the lakes, Thornton said.

“Those actions (to improve the lakes) in turn inform the type of support required from the community,” he said. “The more extensive the intervention, the more expensive.”

Thornton said there are a few options, including the formation of a lake association or a lake district.

A lake association usually is a voluntary group of lakeshore property owners who pool their resources to cover lake management costs, he said.

A lake district taxes all property owners within the district, which could include the whole city, he said.
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Check out Lake Koshkonong's public opinion survey from February 2001 --

RKLD Survey Questionnaire Report

Go To Page 226 of 395 pages (PDF document).