FALL RIVER - The 33rd Lazy Lake annual meeting will be held Saturday at 9 a.m., at Savanna Oaks Cultural Center, 100 Poser Road.

The Lazy Lake Management Plan will be the featured item on the agenda, along with awards which will be given to people who helped save the lake during the flood of June 2008. They are as follows:

- Terry Jaynes of Columbus, the head of the weed harvesting crew;

- William Jaynes of Fall River, a member of the weed harvesting crew;

- Robert Niehoff of Fall River, the director of public works for the village of Fall River, who was in control of the Fall River dam during the flooding;

- Dale Standke, the Fall River village president, on behalf of the village of Fall River; and

- Steve Rubert, the town chairman for the town of Fountain Prairie, on behalf of the township.

"They were very instrumental in working with us," said Steve Sobiek, president of the Lazy Lake Management District. "We had to remove a lot of debris."

The keynote speaker will be Susan Graham, South Central Lakes coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

The meeting will feature the unveiling of a multi-year management plan for Lazy Lake.

"We received about $40,000 in grants form the DNR (since 2006) to do this," Sobiek said. "It is similar to a Smart Growth plan for a city. It basically creates a blueprint or a plan for the future management of the lake, including runoff that contributes to weed growth of the lake. It was really developed out of six months of public meetings and public input."

"It is basically a resource document," Sobiek said. "The plan is going to have everything you need to know about Lazy Lake."

He said the plan will contain contact information, maps, aquatic plant studies, and history as well as goals for the future.

The Lazy Lake Management District received $30,000 in grants from the DNR to do an aquatic plant study, and the results of that study will also go in this plan.

Sobiek said that this meeting will have no real impact on plans for Udey Dam in the city of Columbus.

"The amount of water that is leaving Lazy Lake is determined by Columbia County Circuit Court every spring," said Sobiek. "The village of Fall River determines how much water flow is going to be coming out of Fall River and heading toward Columbus. That is the only issue that is going to impact Columbus, unless the city of Columbus is concerned about the water quality of the Crawfish River."

"Without the cooperative effort of the town of Fountain Prairie, the village of Fall River and the Lazy Lake Management District, there would have been no Fall River dam left," Sobiek said in summary. "People don't realize what a precarious, dangerous situation it was. You had a lot of debris that had to be removed from Lazy Lake before it got to the dam."

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