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the_sly_pig

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3. It's a mistake to compare WBL to Mille Lacs....

Reply to Mister Ed (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 9, 2015, 11:52 AM

Aug 2015

As Mille Lacs has a variety of issues aside from lake levels. The issue is that the aquifer is being drained and Hugo swampland used to ooze south through Bald Eagle into WBL. Construction has siphoned the water no doubt. The issue is that thousands of people have had their property values decline over the last 15 years and they don't live on a lake. You don't see them suing the government to subsidize their property values. My neighbors across the street in WBL are "under water". Maybe they should have bought on the lake, eh?

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"Government exists to serve the people [View all] question everything Jul 2015 OP

Same thing happened to White Bear Lake.... the_sly_pig Jul 2015 #1

I'd say it's not quite that cut-and-dried with White Bear Lake. Mister Ed Aug 2015 #2

It's a mistake to compare WBL to Mille Lacs.... the_sly_pig Aug 2015 #3

Much more to it than property values, I think. Mister Ed Aug 2015 #4

Unless you have a degree and research Snobblevitch Aug 2015 #5

There is a reason for the two links in the OP question everything Aug 2015 #6