Lake level being kept unnaturally low

If the Long Lake Improvement and Sanitation Association (LLISA) is abusing their power by using the sluice gate at the dam to lower the lake instead of for flood relief, can’t some government department take control?

Fox Lake Waterway Agency? Department of Natural Resources? Stormwater Management? Environmental Protection Agency?

The lake was beautiful in the summer of 2015. Then we woke up again to see that the channel had dropped 4 1/2 inches. It is designed to self regulate over the spillway and if it was to go above 740 feet LLISA can relieve the flooding with the sluice gate. But they continue to lower it to 739 feet. And then it drops 3-4 more inches.

LLISA writes that they close the sluice gate at 739.5 feet above sea level (that’s at the line of on the seawall) but the data shows they are lowering it to 739 feet and now it drops to 738 3/4 feet. Unnaturally low and now it automatically gets opened when it starts the heavy rains to keep it at ungodly levels. Unbelievable.

The June 29 rain should’ve brought the lake up three or 4 inches but it stayed level and then was lowered.

I went to the May 2023 annual LLISA meeting to speak up officially to make a motion and plead my case and all the Board of Directors did was try to assassinate my character and label me as an enemy of the lake. I’m hoping other people step forward to get involved and stop LLISA from keeping Long Lake low. It’s shameful and disgusting.

I’ve been asking the Long Lake Improvement and Sanitation Association not to let out our natural resource for 15 years, yet LLISA still keeps this lake unnaturally low

Judd Hansen

Long Lake