LITTLE GEMS

The Starry Stone Wart stays at the bottom of Geneva Lake, completely unaware of the controversy that is quietly raging up along the water’s surface.
The machines purposely designed to allow boaters to power scrub and vacuum the hulls of their boats before entering or leaving Geneva Lake simply do not work.  Even under supervision, just how far under a boat on its trailer is any ‘guardian of the lake’ supposed to enforce a whole slew of old fishermen, barely able of launching and getting in boats to actually get on hands and knees to perform he necessary operations to actually cleanse the bottom of boat hulls?  Town of Geneva board members voted down the agenda item intended to allow for the purchase of such inadequate devices, as well as for money to pay attendants to stand by day and night to make certain the devices are used.

The Town of Linn also refused to accept responsibility for the infestation of Starry Stone Wart now evidenced to exist on the bottom of its Trinke Lagoon and just outside the lagoon in the waters of Geneva Lake proper.  The entire lake bottom has not been scoured or examined in detail forother occurrences of the presence of the damaging underwater growth.  Such an examination would take hundreds of thousands of dollars and still return only spurious and dubious results.  The Geneva Lake communities must get together and begin fighting the infestation by putting a whole lot of funding together to dredge the lake where the Wart has so far been found.  Deep dredging is the only proven method of truly eradicating the disease.  The Geneva Lake associations that might be supported in doing exactly that sort of dredging have been totally unsupported in such efforts.

Nobody around the lake wants to pay the millions this effort is eventually going to take…or, if not paid, if the lake is not dredged, then put up with the future developing fact that the Geneva Lake might no longer serve as a recreationally sustainable lake on into the future.  The problem is real, but it’s not a Town of Geneva problem.  It’s a problem that the leadership of every community located around the lake, or using the benefits of the lake, must be brought into, and then funding and contracting paid for and applied.

Person of the Week

Ms. Reyes, working away so happily and nicely at Egg Harbor.