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Article: PROFITS DRIED UP WITH THE LAKE BUSINESSES BUILT AROUND THE DRAINED LAKE DELTON ARE TRYING TO SURVIVE WITHOUT WATER.(LOCAL)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2008
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Byline: TODD RICHMOND Associated Press
LAKE DELTON -- It's a snow cone kind of day, with not a cloud in the sky and the mercury flirting with 90.
But only about 200 people sit in the Tommy Bartlett water ski show's 5,000-seat lakeside stadium. Instead of jet boats towing human pyramids, they get a juggler, acrobats and a man who make noises like a machine gun.
The greatest show on H20 doesn't have any H20.
Torrential rains in June blew a giant hole in Lake Delton's shoreline, draining the lake, taking vacation homes with it and leaving behind a muddy moonscape of stumps and puddles.
Now the resorts, restaurants and boat rental ...