Vinnie Ha Ha on Lake Koshkonong
Brian,
I live on Vinnie Ha Ha Rd. I have my dock currently out over 100 yards, and my pontoon boat is over 200 yards out from shore. Do I have any options with the DNR that you are aware of. Is personal dredging a possibility?
Everywhere else I find on the lake, people have their boat lift up to their dock. I fear I just own a home on the most shallow part of the Lake.
Any advice you can give would be helpful.
It also seems if there was a lake wide dredging approved some day, that my part of the lake is not covered by it and I might always have this problem.
Thanks,
Jim
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Jim -
Vinnie Ha Ha is indeed a troublesome area.
That bay is filling in with sedimentation from the wetlands to your NE - or the right side of the river heading upstream towards Fort.
We have timed aerial photos dating to the 1950s that illustrates the erosion that is filling-in the VHH bay.
No one refutes this fact but those wetlands are owned by the state and DNR. The only method to curtail this erosion is to armor that shoreline - which to date, the DNR has rejected.
The Lake Mgmt Plan that is currently being written with RKLD, DNR and the US Army Corp will list a series of options to improve navigation, safety, recreation.
RKLD will invest your tax dollars in your VHH bay with limited dredging when we can convince the state and DNR to rip rap their shoreline to your NE. Without that, we would be spending your tax money every X years to dredge.
We will present an option at the RKLD annual meeting on July 28.
Basically, it will say once DNR stops their erosion in your bay, RKLD will look to dredge and then, the recommendation will likely be some sort of community-neighborhhod pier - to economize our resources.
Admittedly, this was a concept 2 summers ago suggested at local public hearings and was greeted with skepticism. We know everyone wants their own piers place conveniently out their own backyards, but without a cost effective alternative, VHH bay will demand longer and longer piers that will require DNR safety lights, etc.
Hope I answered your question and concern. RKLD is very familiar with the hydraulics of VHH. We just need to find a sustainable and economical solution.
Best
Brian Christianson
Vinnie Ha Ha is indeed a troublesome area.
That bay is filling in with sedimentation from the wetlands to your NE - or the right side of the river heading upstream towards Fort.
We have timed aerial photos dating to the 1950s that illustrates the erosion that is filling-in the VHH bay.
No one refutes this fact but those wetlands are owned by the state and DNR. The only method to curtail this erosion is to armor that shoreline - which to date, the DNR has rejected.
The Lake Mgmt Plan that is currently being written with RKLD, DNR and the US Army Corp will list a series of options to improve navigation, safety, recreation.
RKLD will invest your tax dollars in your VHH bay with limited dredging when we can convince the state and DNR to rip rap their shoreline to your NE. Without that, we would be spending your tax money every X years to dredge.
We will present an option at the RKLD annual meeting on July 28.
Basically, it will say once DNR stops their erosion in your bay, RKLD will look to dredge and then, the recommendation will likely be some sort of community-neighborhhod pier - to economize our resources.
Admittedly, this was a concept 2 summers ago suggested at local public hearings and was greeted with skepticism. We know everyone wants their own piers place conveniently out their own backyards, but without a cost effective alternative, VHH bay will demand longer and longer piers that will require DNR safety lights, etc.
Hope I answered your question and concern. RKLD is very familiar with the hydraulics of VHH. We just need to find a sustainable and economical solution.
Best
Brian Christianson
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