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2. South of the bog poles, fishing boats and other boats going at no -wake speed are permitted to within 100 feet of the island, and water skiing is not permitted within 500 feet of the island. 3. Slalom water -ski courses or any marking off of areas in Peltier Lake is not permitted. (The main part of Peltier Lake is about 2000 feet by 4000 feet and a slalom water -ski course has an impact of over 2000 feet in length with its turn around. Peltier Lake is too small and too unique to justify support of such activity). 4. The island be posted as a bird sanctuary with no trespassing. Signs be added at the boat launch, and buoys, markers, and other signs be located by the island. I hope the various governments pull together and support an action that will help restore and protect the Heron rookery, restore equal access for everyone to the Peltier Lake resource, and preserve and protect the environment from damage. Details — My Background I've lived on Peltier Lake since 1979. In 1989, I started the Peltier Lake Association. Here are some of the accomplishments: • Worked lake level issues when St Paul Water pumped Centerville and Peltier Lake down 6 feet in 1988. • Participated on the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) Citizen Advisory Committee for 3 years and learned much about watersheds. • Began a roughly 4 year Curlyleaf Pondweed harvesting effort for Peltier Lake in 1989. • Motivated RCWD to implement a $90,000 Cleanwater Partnership water quality study for the Centerville and Peltier Lake watershed in 1990. • Worked dam level issues as landowners upstream wanted the dam removed and/or lake levels dropped over winter. • Monitor Peltier Lake water quality for the Metropolitan Council starting in 1989. • Launched an effort to manually dig out recently discovered Eurasian Watermilfoil in Peltier Lake in the fall of 2000. • In 2001, found $5,000 in RCWD grant money to help harvest and attempt to control the exotic Curlyleaf Pondweed in Peltier Lake south of the island. • Participate in the Centerville Park and Recreation Committee and advocate community trails. • Volunteer as an Assistant Scoutmaster. I'm afraid that virtually everything I've worked for in trying to preserve and improve Peltier Lake is in jeopardy Details — Behavior Observed To put the problem into perspective, I believe it is worth describing some observed behavior of the two individuals involved. Both were at the April 1999, meeting where numerous experts explained the sensitivity of the area and to please not ski there. Yet, on July 7, 2001, these same two individuals repeated their previous behavior and set up a slalom water -ski course next to the rookery. When I expressed my concern, they said they didn't agree to anything. Later, when I started asking a few other people on the lake about the situation, I was visited on July 10, 2001, by Jerry Lindner and Cindy Lindner who rudely threatened me with a lawsuit saying I was somehow denying them the right of their disabled child to ski the slalom course. They said the ADA was going to get me. They said they were going to sue the Peltier Lake Association for numerous illegal actions. They each had a sheet of paper and seemed to be reading a script. I said I wanted everything in writing. Then I said you have a ski course, right? He said that it was his ski course and he had it rigged so that it sunk when he wasn't using it so nobody else could use it. It was just for him. I asked how long the ski course had been there. He hesitated and said, I'm not answering that. Then I asked him if it was there right now and he again said, I'm not answering that. On July 23, the Anoka County sheriff said he found the slalom water ski course and told the owner it must be removed. So on July 10, when Jerry Lindner and Cindy Lindner were threatening me and intimidating me with every legal word they could think of, they must have had an illegal water -ski course next to the Heron rookery. Do these actions show respect for regulation or for other people? Regarding the other person, all the years he had his current boat on Peltier Lake, he apparently felt no need to license it. It wasn't until DNR and other vehicles started showing up that he finally got a license for his boat in