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Property owners may be changing their minds about Pickerel Bergess Lake dam

 

A number of property owners around Mecosta County's Pickerel Burgess Lake want to do away with a DNR imposed lake level requirement in order to avoid a special assessment district that the county wants to impose for upgrading the Pickerel Lake dam. Last month, Grant Township Supervisor Randy Vetter told the Mecosta County Commission that the group was outraged because the move would hike their property taxes. The group then started a petition drive to have the lake level requirement removed.

 

There was a hearing on the petitioned request on April 27 with 20 property owners that signed the petition, the County Prosecutor, and the County Drain Commissioner. County Administration Paul Bullock says during that hearing, a number of petitioners changed their mind.

 

Once they fully understood the ramifications of doing away with the lake level, i.e. if something goofy happened, they're on their own, at that point there was a real dissension within the ranks.”

 

Bullock says the group is now faced with two options – either there's a lake level and a special tax district, or no lake level and no district.

 

A whole bunch of people that signed it now are thinking 'no probably not,'” he says.

 

Should the petition stand, the County Commission would be forced to take action because removing the lake level requirement with no district would then make the county responsible for the lake level and all the costs associated with it. The Commission has decided to table the petition request until after a June court hearing on the matter.

 

 

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