Legal Opinion
R.W. Docks & Slips v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided June 28, 2001No. 99-2904PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDiane S. Sykes, J.
¶ 1. This case pits a small emergent weedbed along the shores of Lake Superior in Bayfield, Wisconsin, against the developer of a private marina on those same shores. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources sided with the weedbed, and denied the developer a dredging permit needed to complete the final phase of the marina development. The case has an ironic twist: the small emergent weed-bed would not have "emerged" at all were it not for the calming effect of a breakwater the developer had built in the early stages of the project. The presence of the emergent weedbed prompted the DNR to…
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