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Eagle Spring Lake Management District

Eagle Spring Lake is an impounded 279-acre lake located on the Mukwonago River in the Town of Eagle, Wisconsin. The Lake is fed and flows into the Mukwonago River, which forms an important tributary stream to the Fox River.

The Eagle Spring Lake community has undertaken an active program of Lake protection and rehabilitation for many years.

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5 Year Flow Study

Eagle Spring Lake Management District is starting a 5 year flow study to help determine what our actual maximum flow is from our two outlets (Wambold and Kroll). For further details of the project click here on the project overview-flow study.

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

NOTICE!

There are a few meeting dates that have been changed for upcoming meetings. Due to room availability the October, November and December meetings have been moved off of the 3rd Tuesday of the month (our normal schedule). See below under Upcoming Meetings for further details.

Upcoming Meetings

The next Board meeting of the Eagle Spring Lake Management District is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 6:30 pm in the Eagle Municipal Building located at 820 E. Main Street, Eagle, WI. The agenda may be viewed by clicking the date above.

Due to room scheduling conflicts the November meeting will be held on November 11, 2026 and the December meeting will be on December 9, 2026.

Meetings are called to order at 6:30pm and located in the Eagle Municipal Building, 820 E. Main Street, Eagle, WI.

In 2027 we anticipate going back to our Regular Monthly Meeting of the Eagle Spring Lake Management District, held the third (3rd) Tuesday of every month at 6:30 pm in the Eagle Municipal Building main meeting room.

All residents and/or property owners are encouraged to attend.

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Wake Ordinance

The Eagle Spring Lake Management District submitted a request to the Town of Eagle for an ordinance which will restrict use of certain artificial wake enhancement devices on Eagle Spring Lake.

The Eagle Spring Lake Management District did hold a public meeting and discuss this topic at their May 20, 2025 Board meeting that was held at the Eagle Municipal Building located at 820 E. Main Street, Eagle Wisconsin at 6:30pm.

With an majority in favor of an ordinance at the public meeting, an unanimous vote (by the ESLMD Board) has moved this draft ordinance onward to the Town of Eagle. Additionally, at the ESLMD Annual Meeting the majority in attendance (45 to 1) were in favor of recommending to the Town Eagle to please add this to the Eagle Spring Lake ordinances. We have and continue to ask the Town of Eagle for their agreement to enact this ordinance in an addition to the current Eagle Spring Lake Ordinances. Currently the Town remains in the position of not moving forward with our request.

PROPOSED DRAFT OF NEW ORDINANCE RESTRICTING USE OF CERTAIN WAKE EQUIPMENT

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The Residents of Eagle Spring Lake are stewards of the lake and our shorelines. We work closely with the Department of Natural Resources, the Lake District and the Town of Eagle to maintain the quality of our water for swimming, fishing and safe and courteous boating.

Watch this space for pertinent rules and regulations, shoreline preservation ideas to support our native insects, native planting recommendations, and more. We welcome questions we can answer here when it would benefit our all our friends and neighbors.