NEW SLOW NO WAKE ORDINANCE In EFFECT

Today, the official lake level is at 777.49 and will cross the 7.50 threshold before the end of the day.

This is significant because under the OLD Rock County slow-no wake ordinance, the county with support from the Chairman of the Fulton Town Board, would have closed full speed navigation on the Rock River.

Yep, Slow No Wake would have been issued, and the UW Crew Team and their support boats would have been kicked-off the water.

And fishing boats - because under the OLD ordinance, SNW would be in effect now, yet by observing the shorelines, most everyone would never assume SNW would be imposed at this water level.

Today, fishing boats can get up, plane-off, pushing a smaller wake than the wakes they pushed if SNW was in effect today.

It is a shame RKLD had to spend the money we did to demonstrate shoreline water levels, pay legal fees to attorneys to sit and wait to speak to the county board, pay engineer firms to produce maps illustrating how the OLD county ordinance was punitive.

We even had to prove the claims made by the sanitation district's (CKSD) engineers were wrong when they testified a higher trigger for the SNW order would "flood" their pumping stations located near the lake.

If CKSD/Strand knew those claims to be false at the time, they should have been terminated, and if they believed their own claims, then they are not qualified as engineers and should have been terminated.

Strong words perhaps - but take a look at your shoreline today and through next week, and tell me if your property is inundated.  

Drive past those CKSD pumping stations and see if you can find where the lake or river has breached so far that water is approaching those structures.

The amount of money RKLD must spend to defend against the ridiculous and to promote the logical prevents us from reinvesting those resources into the habitat.

Happy fishin - Koshkonong Walleyes will be feasting soon.