Partnership to combat invasive species at Lac La Belle dam area
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Our Mission: The LLBMD seeks to promote environmentally conscious and fiscally responsible decisions by providing education, enhancing a healthy lake ecosystem and ensuring safe use of Lac La Belle for today and tomorrow.
Lac La Belle supports a wide variety of lake activity such as paddle boarding, kayaking, year-round fishing, swimming, water skiing, pleasure cruising, wake boarding, ice boating, wake surfing, and even has the occasional sea plane landing! The lake is used daily with most activity on the weekends during the summer months. The public boat launch at City Beach serves as an entry point for the public with limited parking stalls. Bender Beach is a small public beach on the eastern shore, just north of the Peacock Dam on North Main Street. Entry fees apply at the beaches. You can boat to the downtown and park your boat free of charge near City Beach while you enjoy the shops and restaurants of Oconomowoc. Look for signs at City Beach to alert you about events and concerts at the bandshell. Many people anchor their boat outside the swimming area and listen for a fun night out!
Please familiarize yourself with the Lake Rules page and share this information with others that might come to visit the lake as your guest.
Residents of Lac La Belle have a long history of working to protect and improve the water quality of the lake. By visiting the Resource page, you will learn about piers, lighting and lawn maintenance that keeps the lake in mind.
If you have recently purchased a property on the lake, please email your name, property address and contact phone number to info@llbmd.org with ADD MY NAME in the subject line or fill out the contact form on the Commissioners page. We will then add your name to the District email list. We are required by law to provide notice to you of certain District business via US mail or by classified ad in the newspaper, but this email list will also be used to distribute additional information about activities on the lake beginning in 2022. Your information will not be sold or shared. Please feel free to contact us at: info@llbmd.org or visit the Commissioners page for additional information.
Lac La Belle is a drainage lake at the end of a chain of six lakes along the Oconomowoc River Watershed that spans North Lake to Ixonia. The Lac La Belle shoreline includes mainly residential properties located in the City of Oconomowoc, Town of Oconomowoc and Village of Lac La Belle with some shoreline owned by the State of Wisconsin, local municipalities and a few other non-residential property owners.
The Lac La Belle Management District was created in 1982 to monitor and improve the water quality of Lac La Belle. It is guided by a seven-member Board of Commissioners, with one appointed representative of Waukesha County and another a representative from the Town of Oconomowoc. If you are a riparian owner, or if you live close to the lake but are not on the lake in certain locations, you are part of the District. A map of the District can be found here:
The mission of the LLBMD states “The LLBMD seeks to promote environmentally conscious and fiscally responsible decisions by providing education, enhancing a healthy lake ecosystem and ensuring safe use of Lac La Belle for today and tomorrow.”
Working on improving the water quality of Lac La Belle remains important to its residents and the District has continually worked to make those improvements throughout history.
Fun Historical Facts Provided by Jolayne Landberg – Oconomowoc Historical Society:
For more fun Oconomowoc and Lac La Belle history, please visit the Oconomowoc Historical Society. They have a wealth of information!
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