APPENDIX 16
Responses
Received to Question #1
At
Clear Lake Association Picnic 1999
CLEAR LAKE ASSOCIATION PICNIC
1999
Responses
to: “What aspects of Clear Lake would you like to see improved?”
- You are making progress.
Keep up the good work.
- Water quality of the
lake
- Clean, clean water – no
foam on the beach!
- It should (must) be
healthy and clear.
- Water clarity. A plan
to ensure the best water quality that is possible.
- Clarity
- Water quality
- Water clarity
- Water quality which
leads to more economic vitality in community
- Water clarity
- Clarity
- Clearer water
- Water clarity
- Water quality,
specifically less nutrient and fecal input from surrounding rural areas.
- Cleaner water
- Clarity of water
- Quality of water
- Improve water clarity
and safety
- Water clarity improved
- Improve the clarity
- Water quality
- Water quality
- Clarity as it
influences the perceived cleanliness
- Water clarity,
visibility
- Water clarity improved
- Increase water clarity
(Secchi reading of 3’+)
- Water clarity
- Public awareness of
what people’s actions has on water quality.
- Clarity
- I want to walk to the
end of a dock and see the bottom clearly.
- Clarity of water
- Water clarity
- Clarity and purity
- Clear water
- Water clarity
- Clear water
- Water clarity
- Water clarity
- Purity – improved
turbidity
- Water clarity
- Improved water quality
- Water: We live on the lake (north shore near
fish hatchery) and now and then the white foam is 8” to 10” thick and not
good swimming for our grandchildren.
- Water clarity
- Water purification (reduce
harmful bacteria)
- Clarity
- Water quality
- Purity of the water
- Water clarity
- Purity – improved
turbidity
- Limit HP of boats in
Clear Lake
- Limits of powerboat
horsepower
- Motor size on boats
limited
- Limited power boat use
- Investigate what effect
all the extra boats on Clear Lake has on the quality of the water. Also
the effect of animals bathing in the lake.
- Control of hydro-carbon
emissions, i.e. power boats and jetskiis
- Boating practices and
policy
- Removal /restrictive
use of “Wave Runners” and similar water vehicles. Need age restrictions,
licensing, etc. for usage. They are detrimental to others using the lake.
Most users do not obey the present laws.
- No dumping in the
lake!!
- Some way to keep sewage
from getting into Clear Lake
- How about the septic
tanks?
- Definitely no sewage
dumping into the lake
- Testing to identify any
sewer water running into the lake
- Fewer dead
bullheads/fish on the shore
- Removal of rough fish
- Get rid of rough fish
- Reduce rough fish
population
- If it is felt that
decreasing the carp and rough fish population would help, why aren’t they
seined out with more regularity?
- The depth of the lake
- Deeper (dredging)
- Depth of the lake, it
was 18’, now 16’. Can it be stopped?
- Return of aquatic
vegetation, especially submergent
- Establishment of more
vegetation in the lake
- Buffer shore line
vegetation
- More submergent
(quality submergents) vegetation
- More public access to
lakeshore
- Handicap accessibility
- Stormwater treatment
before entering the lake.
- Clean up storm sewer
run off
- Storm drain (street)
runoff cleaned up
- How about more street
cleaning in the area that drains to the lake? I see much street debris
going into the lake (leaves, grass clippings, junk, etc.).
- Would like to see the
city pass an ordinance to make it unlawful to put grass clippings or
leaves, etc. in the streets.
- County should pave its
roads near the lake and upgrade all its drains
- More readable signs on
the road
- Address any E-coli
issues as first priority
- An assurance of safe
bacterial/E-coli levels
- Clear water, no E-coli
- Reduce E-coli type
bacteria and clarity
- Address algae
(turbidity issues)
- Algae blooms
- Algae control
- Amount of algae
- Algae control
- Control of algae
- Algae level reduced –
clarity
- Less algae
- Amount of algae (Rate
boating in pea soup)
- Decrease phosphorus
concentrations in water entering the lake (cut it by 75%+)
- Nutrient decrease
(N&P)
- Prevention of high lake
levels
- Control (limit)
residential and other building all around the lake.
- Restrict private
development
- Honest in reporting the
facts
- Positive, accurate, and
truthful publicity
- More natural lake shore
– field stone