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• Sometimes it feels like too much of a `good old boys' network on the lake. I think sending out this survey to get all the views is excellent. I think attempts to control the weeds are good. However, at times it feels like the views /opinions of well known individuals are the ones listened to. • Lake management is the responsibility of everyone. • We feel very fortunate to live next to this wonderful resource. Let's preserve it! • Overall, Lake Owasso is a good lake. The lakewatch program is good as long as you are not getting harassed every time you go out on a weekend day or weekend evening. Weed control needs to be better. I've spoken with my neighbors and their weeds are very bad too. • I hope the communication and cooperation between the Lake Association, DNR and watershed management continues. • Concerned that deeper areas need to be dredged to allow for deeper areas and to compensate for marked amounts of sediment accumulation. Consider weed harvesting instead of herbicides to get rid of our large bio- load. • I have seen this lake grow, property develop around it, use increase and recreational opportunities expand beyond our wildest dreams. I've not always been in favor of some changes, but knew that w/o proper management, we could lose the lake completely. The Lake Owasso Association has put forth yeoman efforts to manage it properly and the success has put us far ahead of any other lake. • Enjoy living on the lake -fun to watch activities even though I don't take active part in many. • Let's get the goose program back in action and take more geese (away). • I like the lake. There seems to be a good mix of fishing and boating. I hope the lake remains a good resource for the whole community, not just the lakeshore residents. • I think the people that live on the lake know how to act, and have a real concern about what happens around here. The weekenders sometimes present the problems, maybe the water patrol should pay a little attention to that. • It would be great to have a cross country trail around the perimeter of the lake that snowmobiles and trucks didn't run over. If it were close to the shore, it wouldn't limit them and would be fun. It would also reduce snowmobile noise if they didn't hug the shore. • We appreciate that someone is staying on top of this stuff: We would rather live here than anywhere. • Thanks for the good efforts. • I appreciate the efforts of those involved in the Association - we think the quality of life on Lake Owasso is incredible. Thank you! • Last year's weed treatment was inadequate and in no way extended to 150' from shore (barely 75'). Someone was regularly waterskiing behind a pontoon using headlights an hour after dark. Many boaters don't use lights after dark. • We've handled problems as they have arisen for years now. I see absolutely no reason to change. It's the people who trailer in that are the problem. But because of what we have available to us, we do keep it under control. I feel we've managed the lake wonderfully -with the police enforcement, the Lake Watch and the weed spraying/control. • The lake is a valuable asset to the area, generating large properly taxes. The access should be limited during the summer. If you go up to Rice & N. Owasso, there is a significant amount of trailered boats. Lake Owasso gets an inordinate amount of usage next to the other local lakes. • As the population increases, Lake Owasso and boat landing will become more heavily used. There will be more boats, more noise, more disturbance. Now is the time to make a water park in the SW bay which is too narrow and mucky for good water skiing. Let it be a nature area, a shelter for fisherman, water birds, canoes, muskrats -but not for motorboats, waterskis or jet skis. • I do not like the Sheriff out on the lake hassling some people, but not others. • Kudos to the Executive Committee of the Lake Owasso Association. Thanks for your work. • High taxes don't give you a decent return. People who live off the lake use it more and don't contribute. • I am not anti-waterskiing. In the best of possible worlds, I wish Roseville had developed its lakes the way Minneapolis did with the shore as park property, public walkways and non-motorized boats. • I don't think we should have aircraft on the lake as we have a seaplane base at Rice Lake and also the river in St. Paul. We have too much boat traffic on this lake to compete with aircraft. One day we are going to have an accident. • Overall, we find the lake a valuable and enjoyable asset. • We are pleased with the management of the lake, except the weed control noted above (lack of County involvement in open area).