2024 RPBCWD Lake Association Summit

​All,
 
Jake and I attended the Watershed Lake Association Summit last Thursday.  The slide deck they presented is attached.  Representatives from Lotus, Duck, Red Rock, Silver, Mitchell, Lucy were also there.
 
The big topic at the meeting was that watershed staff interns have gone around every lake by boat and did a shoreline assessment, assigning a numerical score to every individual lot on how it is landscaped for water quality based on criteria published by the DNR.  The example they used on slide #22 was Lake Riley. As you can see in slides 23-25, Lake Riley had the lowest average score of all the lakes evaluated.  They are still in the process of deciding how and when this information would be made public on their website.  Presenting the data at this meeting was part of that process.  Terry Jeffrey said several times that the motivation for this project was not to shame lakeshore residents, but to provide information and suggestions.  However, by rating each lot individually they made it personal.
 
Thanks,
 
Scott
 

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