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Kinderhook Lake may get a gate
May 15, 2015 12:03 am
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From the Kinderhook Lake Corporation website.[/caption]Emilia Teasdale reports in The Columbia Paper that the Kinderhook Lake Corporation (KLC) will install a gate in the water on the lake's on Rose Street Extension to keep out invasive species. “We’re not trying to do anything to anger people,” said KLC Treasurer Fran Sindlinger at the Kinderhook Town Board meeting May 11. People with a deed to land on Rose Street could have a key to the gate without being members of the corporation, Sindlinger said. But many property owners on the lake at the meeting were upset about the gate and said that in the late 1990s the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the town told the KLC they could not put up a gate. “Seventeen years ago the Kinderhook Lake Corp. tried this crap and we stopped it,” said John Leach. KLC is a not-for-profit that owns the bottom of the lake and the dam, and maintains the dam and water quality of the lake, and stocks it with fish. The KLC, formed in the 1950s with 114 current members, has received a permit from DEC and the Army Corp of Engineers to put up the gate on Rose Street Extension. The board will have Town Attorney Andrew Howard review the 1997 DEC ruling. “I’m not sure the town has jurisdiction over it,” said Supervisor Pat Grattan. The next town board meeting is at 7 p.m. June 8 at the Martin H. Glynn Municipal Building. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.
From the Kinderhook Lake Corporation website.[/caption]Emilia Teasdale reports in The Columbia Paper that the Kinderhook Lake Corporation (KLC) will install a gate in the water on the lake's on Rose Street Extension to keep out invasive species. “We’re not trying to do anything to anger people,” said KLC Treasurer Fran Sindlinger at the Kinderhook Town Board meeting May 11. People with a deed to land on Rose Street could have a key to the gate without being members of the corporation, Sindlinger said. But many property owners on the lake at the meeting were upset about the gate and said that in the late 1990s the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the town told the KLC they could not put up a gate. “Seventeen years ago the Kinderhook Lake Corp. tried this crap and we stopped it,” said John Leach. KLC is a not-for-profit that owns the bottom of the lake and the dam, and maintains the dam and water quality of the lake, and stocks it with fish. The KLC, formed in the 1950s with 114 current members, has received a permit from DEC and the Army Corp of Engineers to put up the gate on Rose Street Extension. The board will have Town Attorney Andrew Howard review the 1997 DEC ruling. “I’m not sure the town has jurisdiction over it,” said Supervisor Pat Grattan. The next town board meeting is at 7 p.m. June 8 at the Martin H. Glynn Municipal Building. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.