CRANES environmental group says Dane County should lower Lake Mendota level


CRANES environmental group says Dane County should lower Lake Mendota level


A local environmental advocacy group is calling for Dane County to lower the level of Lake Mendota by 2 feet to prevent future flooding after a County Board task force excluded the suggestion from its recommendations last month.

The Yahara Lake Level Task Force produced 46 recommendations to prevent future flooding along Lakes Mendota, Monona, Waubesa and Kegonsa and the Yahara River, including dredging the riverbed, removing aquatic plants to increase water flow and purchasing more land to manage stormwater. Land and Water Resources Department staff have said that increasing water flow is paramount to preventing the swells of water in the lakes....

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Ken Notes: What does the lake look like at this new level??? Boating - beaches - algae - odor - navigation - fishing - weeds... I remember a pond in central Wisconsin where DNR removed all the carp, after a year the weeds overtook the lake and it went from navigable to one you could not even canoe through. I am just suggesting caution here.

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