The Official Site of Residents who are trying to save Pickerel Lake
If anyone wants to help with the cost to get the Site Plan Reviewed, you can Venmo @Tammi-Soehl
It costs $1,000 for the review and we are looking for 20 people to chip in $50, but anything helps!
Thanks everyone!
In the Variance Application filed on 09/25/23 it states that they will be cutting 8,672.04 cubic feet of dirt and filling in 3,185.46 cubic feet. Which means they are planning on removing 5,486.58 cubic feet of dirt. If they use a 10 cubic feed dump truck, that is 549 Dump Truck Loads. FIVE HUNDRED FOURTY NINE!!!
A lot of people might not get the impact of adding 30 docks to the lake of this size so I created a visual representation of the impact on our lake.
This is what the lake looks like now with the Proposed RV Park highlighted. Note that these 60 docks all have the same share of the lake.
Now this is what the lake will look like if the proposed RV park and the boat docks go in.
Notice the disproportionate percentage of the lake this single Parcel of land gets compared to the rest of the 80 properties and 60 docks.
This is already a small lake, only able to sustain 15.7 motorized boats at any one time. (according to Minnesota standards). Allowing a single parcel to increase the number of docks on the lake by 50% would be reckless.
The online petition to Save Pickerel Lake is live! Check out the link below to sign.
Last week the Park Rapids Enterprise ran a Letter to the Editor about how an RV Park on Pickerel Lake would be detrimental.
Here is a link:
https://www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/opinion/letters/letter-rv-park-would-be-detrimental-to-pickerel-lake
This is a picture of Collette’s first fish this season. Caught off the dock.