People who want to protect and improve the Lake Lake Butte des Morts intend to form a non -profit Lakes Association, which would be a collective voice to finance and implement projects useful for the public.
The organizers defined Little Lake Butte des Mortts as waters downstream from Nesen and Menasha dams and before 1 Appleton Lock 1, so it includes sections of the Fox River.
SCOPE includes five municipalities: Neenah, Menasha, Fox Crossing, Grand Chute and Appleton.
About 500 residences in the lake and river. However, in order to qualify the Lakes Association, state law says that membership must be open to any resident or property owner mile from the lake. The organizers threw an even wider net and plan to include anything, regardless of the distance from the lake or the river, which is common to improve the lake.
“This is purely voluntary, self-funded through victims,” said Steve Erb, a member of the Organizational Committee. “There is a membership fee for participation, but every resident of the lake is not required to be part of the association.”
The annual membership fee with a compliance is $ 25, said ERB.
The meeting to learn more about the formation of the Lakes Association will take place on August 19. 6:30 p.m. Neenah Public Library, 240 E. Wisconsin Ave.
The sun goes down above the Little Lake Butte des Mortts.
Little Lake Butte des Morts attracts fishermen and sailors
Lake Little Lake Butte des Morts is expanding in the Fox River in the Winnebag County. It is east of 41 interstate and bypassing the US 10/state 441 via Roland Camp Memorial Bridge and Fox Cities Trail Trail.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the lake occupies 1200 ha and is a maximum depth of 18 feet. It is used by fishermen and sailors who can enter the water from public descents in Fox Park Fox Crossing or Ninth Street in Menasha.
The lake is rich in catfish, panfish and sturgeon populations. There are also northern pike and wolf, and there are bosses, both large and small.
The name “Butte des Morts” can be traced to French traders and means “the Hill of the Dead”, taking into account the nearby American burial mound. Despite a similar name, the lake is different from Butte des Mortts lake, which is northwest of Oshkosh.
2023 The algae mat covers the water near the Menasha lock.
What are the biggest concerns of the Little Lake Butte des Mortts?
2024. A survey sent to Shoreline real estate owners and open to the public created 441 answers and identified 15 concerns with Little Lake Butte des Mortts. They take up rating from top to bottom:
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Algae flowering. It was the biggest concern for both real estate owners and society.
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Excessive growth of aquatic plants
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Water level fluctuations. The third place was scored third, but the public was 10th.
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Water invasive species such as round gobby and zebra mussels
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Wastewater and industrial emissions
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Contaminated leakage from farm fields, roads and residential property
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Excessive water traffic
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Unsafe water motorcycle practice
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Effect of climate change
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Excessive fishing pressure
The ERB said the Lakes Association can also focus on improving or working on the lake to the lake to change orders for noise, duck hunting or night fishing.
“In some cases, the rules are different, depending on where you are at the lake,” Erb said. “This is a challenge to face the challenge.”
The American white pelican stands on the rock on the Fox River, right north of the Little Lake Butte des Mortts.
The group seeks to use impulses from the management plan
Neenah, Menasha and Fox Crossing worked with Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, Winnebag County, DNA and GEI consultants, including in the last two years to develop a water factory management plan for the Little Lake Buttes des Mortts.
Neenah Parks and Mike Kading, Director of Recreation, said he was surprised at how little is known about the lake, given its important location between Nesen, Menasha and Fox Crossing, whose total population is 64,557 people.
“Basically, Butte des Morts have never been actually investigated,” Kady said. “I can’t believe it because of all the work that was done during the PCB cleaning.”
Kading said the water factory management plan cost $ 100,000, half of which were covered with appropriate grants. For the efforts, it was recommendation to establish an Association of Lakes and implement the weed harvesting test project at the shores of Arrowhead Park and Herb & Dolly Smith Park in Neena.
Speaking in one voice as the Lakes Association, not separately, may have more weight to ensure federal and state approvals and grants, said Kading.
The Weed Harvesting Project, which awaits DNA permits, would be similar to the yield of weeds, performed every year in the Port of Nesena near Riverside Park. The yield is scheduled for 2026. It is estimated that the costs range from $ 25,000 to $ 30,000 and would be liability.
If succeeds, weed removal can be expanded into other parts of the Little Lake Butte des Mortts.
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This article initially appeared in Appleton Post-Crescent: Attorney