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Marking on the roads.
The City of Lake Geneva’s Public Works Department is waiting on Mother Nature to complete pavement markings which include parking stall lines, stop bars, crosswalks, and other miscellaneous items. This also includes the plastic tube delineators along Edwards Boulevard to stop northbound traffic from making left turns into the Mobil station on the corner. The third (last entrance) will be available for those needing to make that left-hand turn. The work can’t be done until the surface temperature of the roadway is a minimum of fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit consistently, which typically occurs sometime in May. There is also a problem getting the product needed to complete the painting of the stripes. There seems to be a severe shortage of the paint needed from the city’s supplier along with every other supplier due to supply chain issues caused by the pandemic. The street department was aware of this issue early enough to do some research and hopes to have the products needed by May.
Walworth County Public Works has announced the dates for the county-wide clean sweep for 2022.
This work includes a clean sweep of household hazardous waste, electronics and appliance recycling. There is a cash disposal fee for certain electronics. For more information and specific details residents and owners can email walcosw@co.wisconsin.wi.us, or visit the web; www.co.walworth.wi.us/342/Hazardous-Waste-Electronics-Recycling or call 262-741-3116.
The spring clean sweeps, including select appliances and electronics, will be held on Saturday, June 25th, at the City of Delavan Public Works Department, which is located at 490 Richmond Road and is open from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. The county is hosting another clean sweep on Saturday, July 23rd, located at Walworth County Public Works building located at W4097 County Road in Elkhorn, where it is open from 8 a.m. till 12 p.m.
Geneva Lake’s has its very own.
A bait shack was the first structure built there, long since gone. Now that alcove of beach, rock, shore, and water is once again under threat of becoming even more of a ‘Lazzaroni Harbor” kind of private fiefdom. Lazzaroni wants a hundred-and-thirty-foot pier built to replace the eighty-foot one he’s already got, thereby extending fifty feet further out into the lake. Since the lake water curves out to the west right in front of his property this move would basically turn that part of the lake into a small private harbor by blocking any approach to it from the north.
The Department of Natural Resources hearing on this issue (the City of Lake Geneva has no say) is set for the 20th of April. Go to the meeting and raise holy hell. Fight for continued freedom for the public for access to places of such beauty and grandeur. Individuals always want to take such things of their very own. Don’t let that happen right here at the very edge of Lake Geneva. Here’s the DNR comment sent out to anyone interested: “The DNR will host a public hearing on a proposed pier construction project in Lake Geneva. Mike Trainor DBA The Boat House has applied to the DNR on behalf of landowner Michael Lazzaroni for a permit to construct a Pier located along the shoreline of Lake Geneva, Walworth County, at N2062 S. Lakeshore Dr. in Lake Geneva.
The project consists of removing an existing 10-slip, 80′ long rock-crib filled pier along with the subject property and constructing a new 130’ long rock-crib filled pier which will provide slips to berth 14 boats and associated boat lifts for use by The Boat Club and transient patrons of the attached restaurant when boat club slips are not occupied. As part of the project, four mooring buoys will be removed from the adjacent mooring field where 16 mooring buoys have been routinely placed.
“The department has made a tentative determination that it will issue the permit or contract for the proposed activity.”
Yes, the DNR is basically agreeing to this stilted, slanted, and unfair proposal. Everyone else who has a pier, or wants one, on the shores of Lake Geneva, is limited to a hundred feet. This meeting is set to be virtual, at 3:00 p.m. on a workday, thereby cutting out most employed residents and older residents not very familiar with Internet activity. This proposal is being pushed right on through. Here’s the man at the DNR supposedly running the meeting: Kyle.McLaughlin@Wisconsin.gov or 715-360-6148.
