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Article: LAKE DELTON DISASTER: RESORTS STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE (WITH PHOTO GALLERY) DESPITE HAVING 'LOSS OF INCOME' INSURANCE, MOST AREN'T SEEING PAYMENTS.(NEWS)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- June 13, 2008
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Byline: Todd Finkelmeyer
LAKE DELTON -- Most who operate one of the many family-owned, quaint resorts on the shores of now-empty Lake Delton are doing their best to keep a sense of humor -- even though a dark cloud of uncertainty is omnipresent.
"You can go almost anyplace in Wisconsin and find a lake filled with water," said Kate Pettit, who owns and operates Delton Oaks, which features 27 motel rooms/suites and a two-bedroom cabin on the southwest side of Lake Delton. "But this is the only place you can see a lake without water."
On Monday, the lake which attracts thousands of tourists each summer, drained after a portion of the sandy northern shoreline breached ...