Screw the City of Westminster...

[Grant H.]

GD because it's not blatantly political...

So, according to the City of Westminster (CoW from here on out), they are not going to allow trailer born boats on Standley Lake ever again due to fear of "zebra mussels and quagga mussels" invading the water and causing damage...

https://www.cityofwestminster.us/Boating

Now, if you go look at the state website for ANS (Aquatic Nuisance Species), you will find that there is not a single lake in CO that has been at risk for these critters in the last 5 years, and not a single lake in CO has had a documented report of these species in nearly 10 years...

https://cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Page...ra-Quagga.aspx

CoW has repeatedly suggested that Standley should be off limits to any use except for fishing and non-powered recreational use. Through city council meeting attendance, and pressure from the park employee's themselves, this has been averted till now.

Now, CoW has decided to use their own BS idea of "risk" to eliminate the usage of the lake that they don't like. Despite that it is very publicly contrary to actual facts surrounding ANS in CO.

Fuck local .gov in this case, but in reality, fuck all .gov bureaucracy BS...

Sorry - Rant over... We just really enjoy wakeboarding in the summer, and Standley was a great option... And now political hacks have made it not an option...


Taken on Standley...
0902171911c by ARNEWB, on Flickr

[Grant H.]

Oh, and if you live in CoW, enjoy the water rate hikes...

This one change will cost CoW $450k+ annually... (Boat permit revenue)...

[Mazin]

Call it wasteminster for a reason.

[Irving]

Ask them what they are going to do with all the money that is supposed to go to that lake instead.

[.455_Hunter]

I know families that purchased homes and property in the immediate vicinity of the lake because power boating is their complete lifestyle. I am sure they have some choice comments now.

[Irving]

Can you do recalls?

[Mtneer]

Sorry, not sorry; not politics, just science. This one actually makes sense. Once those damned things get into a lake, they do serious harm and there is no eradication that I've heard of. More remote places like Idaho make you buy an annual stamp per boat and (theoretically) do inspections. But for an urban lake like Standley, it's guaranteed there will be just the one asshole who slips through with a contaminated boat. It really is a threat to a water supply for a lot of people.

[Grant H.]

Sorry, not sorry; not politics, just science. This one actually makes sense. Once those damned things get into a lake, they do serious harm and there is no eradication that I've heard of. More remote places like Idaho make you buy an annual stamp per boat and (theoretically) do inspections. But for an urban lake like Standley, it's guaranteed there will be just the one asshole who slips through with a contaminated boat. It really is a threat to a water supply for a lot of people.

Maybe read the second link, that deals with precisely the misinformation that you are spreading...

They can't live here. They've been spotted in lakes in CO, and then they die off during the winter... We've had them, and then we haven't for years...

This is politics, and blatant inaccuracies, pure and simple.

[colorider]

I am one of those people who moved to Westminster for the lake. However, that was 17yrs ago. I live 2 minutes from the entrance. It was IDEAL. I would go to the lake every day after work, and chill out there on weekends. Some days would skip work, or work half a day just to be on the glassy smooth water. Wakeboarding and the boat life was everything to me and my wife. Sold the boat 13yrs ago when out son was born and did not replace it.
There are MANY people and families around here that moved for the sole purpose to be in close proximity of the lake. Driving to Chatfield or Cherry Creek, Boyd, or elsewhere is just not going to work for them. They use the lake every day after work, before work, weekends, etc. The neighborhoods are buzzing with anger after today's news. Oh, and fisherman too. The are also super pissed. Also, the city jacked our water prices up to an absurd amount a few months ago.

[Grant H.]

I am one of those people who moved to Westminster for the lake. However, that was 17yrs ago. I live 2 minutes from the entrance. It was IDEAL. I would go to the lake every day after work, and chill out there on weekends. Some days would skip work, or work half a day just to be on the glassy smooth water. Wakeboarding and the boat life was everything to me and my wife. Sold the boat 13yrs ago when out son was born and did not replace it.
There are MANY people and families around here that moved for the sole purpose to be in close proximity of the lake. Driving to Chatfield or Cherry Creek, Boyd, or elsewhere is just not going to work for them. They use the lake every day after work, before work, weekends, etc. The neighborhoods are buzzing with anger after today's news. Oh, and fisherman too. The are also super pissed. Also, the city jacked our water prices up to an absurd amount a few months ago.

Yeah, there has been some "gloating" from the fishermen that don't like seeing wake boats out early on a weekday morning, but they don't seem to understand that their boats are verboten as well... Any boat that arrives on a trailer is out...

I know our group of folks that we are close to from being out there all summer are super pissed. Everything is an hour plus away from there now.

CoW has known about this for a while, some folks that know more than I do have suggested it's one of the big reasons for the push to raise water rates 1/1/19 and 1/1/20, and yet they still let all of us pay our boat permit fee's, and now they will return it without any interest. That's dealing in bad faith, and I know a few folks have already contacted lawyers about this.