As a reminder, the Lynx Lake Conservation Foundation donated $1,000 to the Carlin Lake Association to help in their lawsuit with the water bottling plant.
Happy new year, Friends of Carlin Lake!
The last nine months of 2020 have been so eventful that it may be difficult to remember back to good news from the month of March.
For five years, property owners at Carlin Lake, joined by good friends and neighbors like you, challenged a proposed business that planned to pump and bottle water from the property of the former Carlin Club.
But, in a telephone hearing at the end of March, in a culmination of lots of other legal hearings, Vilas County Judge Nielsen ruled that bottling and selling that water was not legal under residential zoning ordinances, and thus was not allowed.
Now, this fall, the Carlin Club property has been sold to a private buyer, who tells us he intends to use the lake frontage only for personal use of family and friends. He says he does not intend to operate a restaurant or bar, and will not be renting hotel rooms. Thus, we think we can end 2020 believing that the threat of this commercial venture is past.
Once again, we want to express our sincere thanks for all the support and encouragement we received from friends, neighbors, and other environmentalists. You believed, with us, that a business use would have set a dangerous precedent for our lakeland area.
“It took a village!” We know our efforts would not have been successful without the unified front we all were able to create together. We are extremely grateful!
We wish you all the best, for a happy and healthy and contented year in 2021!
Sincerely,
Carmen Farwell, for the Carlin Lake committee: Ramona Kubica, Barbara LaPean, Bob Ruch, Cecil Davis, Mary Watkins.
Congrat’s to all those involved in the process to halt the prospect of taking water from the lake for commercial purposes. Does anyone really think we need another bottled water source / brand ? Good for you all!