GREENSBORO – In a report to the select board at the January 8 meeting, then-board-member David Kelley reported that he and others spoke at a Vermont Agency of Natural Resources meeting on December 12 in Montpelier, “asking the ANR to prohibit wake boats on Caspian Lake. He said ANR seems skeptical of their arguments, and they’ve begun conversations with our state legislators,” noted minutes of that meeting. Kelley concluded, “It is expected that ANR will issue a decision by springtime.”
The testimony by Kelley and others was in support of a July 2023 petition by the Greensboro Association and Greensboro Select Board proposing the prohibition of wakesports and wakeboats on Caspian Lake. No action on that petition is recorded on the Department of Environmental Conservation website.
A 2022 petition by Responsible Wakes for Vermont Lakes asking that wake sports be regulated in a responsible manner and prohibited on small lakes, was supported by many area organizations, including the Lake Eligo, Lake Elmore, Shadow Lake and Woodbury Lake associations, along with the Craftsbury and Glover select board.
Hardwick Electric Department prohibits wake boats from launching at the Caspian Lake boat launch.
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
