04-14-2020, 04:34 PM
Thanks for the research and pictures, Bob.
Your absolutely right about the first gate. It was put in to limit the use to daylight hours and keep the party crowd out. They finally figured out that it was a pain to keep opening and closing the gate so they abandonded the idea years ago.
I went to Morgan County a few years back and pulled the plat plans to find out more about the gate. The property where the gate is located is clearly on county property and the road leading up the reservoir is all on county property until you get about 2/3 of the way up the reservoir. There is a small corner of private property (Farmland Reserve alias LDS Church/DL&L) that extends across the road. I would say that if there needs to be a gate across the road it should be at that point. That would be about 1 1/2 miles up the road from the present gate and open up more fishable water for bank anglers along with kick boat fishermen.
Your absolutely right about the first gate. It was put in to limit the use to daylight hours and keep the party crowd out. They finally figured out that it was a pain to keep opening and closing the gate so they abandonded the idea years ago.
I went to Morgan County a few years back and pulled the plat plans to find out more about the gate. The property where the gate is located is clearly on county property and the road leading up the reservoir is all on county property until you get about 2/3 of the way up the reservoir. There is a small corner of private property (Farmland Reserve alias LDS Church/DL&L) that extends across the road. I would say that if there needs to be a gate across the road it should be at that point. That would be about 1 1/2 miles up the road from the present gate and open up more fishable water for bank anglers along with kick boat fishermen.