Lake District Pursue Higher Instead Of Deeper

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In Thursday’s editorial, the Janesville Gazette encouraged the RKLD to keep up the fight against the state Department of Natural Resource's powers and reasoning establishing the water level height of Lake Koshkonong. This coming after a recent ruling re-affirming the DNR’s constitutional powers as a state agency.

JG Editorial Excerpt:
Resident and business owners who want more water will never be satisfied if the district abandons the fight now.

This is probably the most telling statement describing the perpetual contradiction concerning Lake Koshkonong, that adding more water will create the deeper conditions they want. They are ignoring the shallow nature and heavy gravity within their own defense, and have put their own self-serving economic benefits and interests as the driving force to over-rule the decision achieved by the DNR's fine balance between economic and environmental impact concerns.

On Thursday night, the RKLD Board voted to appeal the recent circuit court decision. No doubt, economics played just as heavy a role. Advancing to the Appellate Court will cost each parcel owner in the RKLD district only $5 and another $12.50 if the case goes to the state supreme court.

Besides the extremely low cost on their end to pursue the matter, one of the RKLD’s reasons to continue the fight is the idea that the DNR would have surely appealed the ruling, had Dillon overturned their constitutional powers. So it turns out, the lake district's argument has reached the point beyond the data, the logic or the reasoning behind their passionate pursuit. It has become a combative exercise not to justify their own cause but to defeat the other guy as well.

Sounds political to me.Cartoon? sent in by a reader.