Brady said he has concern that this started a couple of years ago when there was a clean up and residents found a great deal of trash coming from the tubers and residents were very upset. He said commissioners should be careful about changing a lot of things over one group of people. Brady also said he is concerned about the county using taxpayer money to create buffers on private property. “These people are the least needy in the county and spend- ing taxpayer money is unjust,” said Brady.

Cindy Breedlove, also a Lake Adger resident, said she is sure Conard’s heart is in the right direction but named a list of data taken on the Green River in the last few years.

Breedlove also asked for a comparison of the restrictions on class IV watershed and class III watershed and said she is curious who is responsible for the dredg- ing and how much it will cost.

Stewart Reid said he agreed with Pack that when he was a kid someone was dredging sand out of the lake, whether it was a private company or the state.

Scott Woodworth said the county should try to look at this as common sense rather than looking  at a bunch of issues. He asked if Lake Adger is being affected by Henderson County and Hender-son County is being affected by Buncombe County, then who is responsible. Woodworth was ref-erencing Altamont saying some of the sediment is coming from Henderson County. Woodworth said the county should focus on one item and see if corrections can be made.

“I just think making a blanket bunch of restrictions on peoples’ property is not the right way to go,” said Woodworth.

Debbie Arceneaux, also a Lake Adger resident, said the pictures shown in the assessment are “unbelievably deceiving.” She said it depends on when someone

takes pictures of Lake Adger. She agreed that since 1929 there’s not been much care taken to the river and agreed that dredging is needed. Arceneaux said the prob-lems aren’t Polk County’s since it comes from Henderson County.

“They’ve laid the egg right in our laps for us to maintain,” Arceneaux said.

Commissioner Ray Gasperson said Polk owns the land under the lake to the high water mark and owns the dam and ultimately has the expense for taking care of the sedimentation. He said he is happy to hear there are grants and would love to find someone to come in and take care of the sand.

“We’ve got to have a wa-

tershed designation and we’ve got to take care of the lake, the sedimentation and the dam,” Gasperson said.