Nice house, dirty lake, ugly power plant, bad air
Review Submitted: July 20, 2009
Date of Stay: July 2009
To start with the positive, the house is very nice and we had no complaints about it. The basement is great and there is lots of room. However, we felt the property and surroundings were grossly misrepresented.
First of all, the power plant is huge and ugly and it's close enough to swim to. It emits black smoke almost 24/7 and we thought the air smelled terrible and was unhealthy to breathe. There is also a constant, annoying hum. At one point, it was so loud we could not even be outside and the little kids were scared of the "thunder" while inside the house. Even the local marina employees said it sounded like a jet engine was taking off and going nowhere. It was horrible.
Also, the lake is very, very dirty and we did not feel it was safe to swim. Not once, all week, did we get in the water. There was trash everywhere along the shoreline. And by trash, I don't mean a few bottles, here and there. I mean it was covered! Millions of Styrofoam pieces everywhere, broken glass, plastic bags, oil bottles, pieces of metal, plastic bottles, juice boxes, paint brushes, etc. And more washed up every day. The area about 100 feet from the dock, where the cove ends, looked like a gross, toxic pit.
We found out later that the local conservation club has full-time employees who remove trash from the lake all of the time. So this is clearly not a once-in-a-blue-moon kind of problem, due simply to one heavy rain. Upstream, there were tires and logs and big pieces of metal and in certain parts, a lovely film covering the lake. It was gross and we don't understand how people can swim in it, much less safely pull kids on tubes or skis.
Also, the views on the website are very pretty and true. However, turn the camera slightly and you will see an enormous power tower right outside of the dining room. It is very ugly and covered in buzzards every morning. The entire area is covered with these several hundred feet high power towers. The smoking power plant and all of these power towers are visible almost the entire time while on the golf course and it's just so yuck. And again, the air smells bad and is unhealthy to breathe (in our opinion), so many of us did not even want to golf.
After our complaints, some of this is partially disclosed now. But if we had known about the plant (proximity, size, ugliness, loudness smokiness), the dirty lake and the polluted air, we would never have rented this house. It's a shame, b/c otherwise, it would have been a great place.
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