Neila,
There are similar cables and fences across the Upper
Iowa River in Winnieshiek and Allamahkee Counties.
I testified to this fact at the local Governor's Water
summit and asked why they can do this with navigable
streams.
I never head an answewr.

Charlie Winterwood

P.S.
If I gave you(Neila) the voting records on tis years
state legislation, can you get them to Jane.


--- Neila Seaman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I received a call the other day from David Morud who
> is a rafter up by Mason City.  He told me that he's
> rafted the Shell Rock River a couple of times this
> summer.  This past trip, he discovered that farmers
> have stretched cables across the river in two places
> and anchored one end of one cable in the limestone
> on one side of the river.  He says he called the DNR
> in Clear Lake who told him that farmers can run
> electrical fence across the river if they want to.
> Morud tells me that he didn't see the cables the
> first time he rafted this year probably because he
> floated over them.
>
> Has anyone encountered this situation before?  Does
> anyone have a suggestion on who Morud could call
> besides the DNR in Clear Lake?  Does he just have to
> live with it?
>
> Your input is appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> Neila Seaman, MPA
> Director
> Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter
> 3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
> Des Moines, IA  50310
>
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