Now Hiring - Weed Harvesting Operators
SUMMER HELP WANTED
Eagle Spring Lake District is seeking a Plant Harvesting Operator to harvest invasive aquatic plant on our lake for the 2026 summer season. Our season starts in April and ends in October. The position requires an average of 15-0 hours per week during weekdays with flexible hours. Training would be provided. To learn more about his position, please click on the following link for a job description or contact David Voves, Chairperson at 262-989-0442. To qualify, you need to be 18 years of age, possess a valid drivers license, be a citizen of the US and, speak English.
Wake Enhancement Ordinance
It has been brought to the attention of the Eagle Spring Lake Management District (ESLMD) that more and more local lakes are incorporating a wake enhancement ordinance as part of their lake ordinances. The Town of Palmyra has just passed an ordinance to protect their lakes.
In efforts to be proactive, rather than reactive, the ESLMD is asking the Town of Eagle to please consider a simular ordinance that would help protect Eagle Spring Lake from wake enhancement equipment being used on the Lake.
Currently, the Town of Eagle is hesitant to develop such an ordinance. We are hopeful that they will change their mind and realize the damage it could cause our lake if just one boat decided to fill their ballasts and give it a try. Guaranteed, it will most likely ruin their boat, but it will certainly cause damage to our lake that may or may not be fixable and could take years to heal.
Assembly Bill 1033, introduced February 9, 2026, by Rep. Rob Brooks and Sen. Dan Feyen and backed by the Water Sports Industry Association, would mandate that wake surfing (wake-enhanced boating) occurs at least 200 feet from shore, docks, or other boaters—without any minimum depth requirement or safeguards for existing local ordinances. From a free-market perspective, this bill represents flawed, top-down regulation that undermines private property rights, local control, and decentralized decision-making. AB 1033's 200-foot standard adds little protection—many lakes already have 200-foot slow-no-wake rules—and risks preempting stricter local ordinances on over 400 lakes across 76 towns. This invites lawsuits from out-of-state interests against communities tailoring rules to their lakes' unique conditions, eroding genuine local sovereignty.
This bill may be of a benefit to our lake, since finding an area on the lake where you could be that you 200' away from any shoreline or dock, pier, boathouse, or other structure located completely or partly on the water, and from any person in the water or any occupied vessel.
For those of you who would like to know a little more about it, here are a few links that you may find interesting.
AB1033 - The regulation of wake surfing and providing a penalty.
The August 23, 2025 educational session on do big wakes hurt lakes? Power-point presentation from Terra-Villa's educational session.
May 8, 2025 Milwaukee Journal Article - Concerns over Wake-enhanced Boating Control Discussions