A fundraiser is underway to finance restoration of a waterway that’s a connection to two bays and a beach in the Iowa Great Lakes region. Tim Ireland is on the Save Turtle Lake Committee.
Ireland says Turtle Lake used to be a good fishing spot, but not with the level of sediment that’s there now. The Save Turtle Lake group has a little over 350-thousand dollars in pledges toward its goal of raising 750-thousand dollars for the project. Donations will be tax deductible.
The money will be used to dredge the lake and do some restoration along the shoreline. Turtle Lake connects Miller’s Bay and Emerson Bay on West Lake Okoboji as well as Spencer Beach, which is near Wahpeton in Dickinson County.
