COMMENTARY-- Round Lake Lake land purchases? (Part 2 of 3)

Last week I proposed to the village board a two step process to better manage our portion of Round Lake. In Round Lake (pictured here from 1939) there are a few pieces of undeveloped land that are in our corporate limits and undeveloped that can play a process in making and ensuring access to and a healthy high quality lake.

One parcel has the ability to become a park on the lake itself, and provide us the access to the lake as a municipality, something we do not have right now. As this is our centennial year, and the lake is our name sake I also proposed that if all of this goes as planned we could name it Centennial Park. Of course the land may be acquired during our centennial the park won't be complete then if all goes well.

The second parcel is not adjacent to the water but rather the channel that flows northwards from Washington Street. It is about 4 acres of land that is currently vacant and could serve as a means of preventing silt from getting into the channel which is heavily silted up right now. This parcel also ties into the unused railroad right of way that connects up into the downtown area as well, and we are going to approach the railroad to see if we can make in more then an informal path and make it a more formal path!