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This
page contains some general information about the Master Property Owners
Association more commonly known as the MPOA. Maps
and photo's of the lake are also
available.
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The Master Property Owners Association became a chartered not for profit property owners association on September 15, 1965. At that time the Wonder Lake Syndicate (the original group of developers), relinquished title to the lake bottom of Wonder Lake and officially turned ownership of the lake over to the property owners. During the past 32 years, the organization has continuously controlled the majority of the lake bottom area and maintained the recreational facility known as Wonder Lake. After some 60 years of continual and diverse use of the lake, the MPOA felt it was important to assess how water quality is being effected. The primary lake uses include boating, fishing, water-fowl hunting and aesthetics. However, as a result of years of sedimentation originating from the large agricultural and urbal watershed, the lake has become degraded in terms of water quality, navigational access, and excessive bottom feeding rough fish (carp) populations. This degraded condition was characterized as hyper-eutrophic, i.e. large quantities of suspended sediments, algal growth, and turbid water, by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) and the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC) in 1990 through its Lake Water Quality Assessment Program. Recognizing their responsibility to all property owners with lake rights, the MPOA delegates in 1994, approved by-law changes that mandated the MPOA directors to meet monthly and to become a pro-active force in the management of the lake. In an effort to focus their efforts to manage the lake, the Directors established the following goals:
As a result of the effort to focus on their responsibilities, the MPOA Directors and Delegates, through the Lake Renewal Committee, began to evaluate the condition of the lake and to assess it's potential for improvement. Originally it was determined to sample, test, and generally study the lake and its watershed to find out:
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