I'm inclined to believe the big boats with heads aboard are in compliance with the law. My concern is with those that have no facilities and spend the day out on the lake.
As for clarity, I have been a lake volunteer participant measuring water clarity each July for the past dozen years. Last year, there was a dramatic change, from 27 feet as measured by the Secchi disc in 2004, to only 19 feet last year. Nothing this dramatic had been observed in previous years. And there is a great increase in the bright green algae [inches to feet in diameter] that clings to rocks. There was none of this a few years ago.
I would describe our lake as still pristine up to about five years ago. Not anymore.
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