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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		A Block On Private Piers? Group Fights To Reverse Sweeping Supreme Court Decision On State Flowages
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:01
	Publish Date:		2020-01-23 06:36:00
	Description:		The waters of the Biron Flowage are no more than ten feet from the porch of Mike Spranger’s second home. “This is the reason we bought it,” he said. “The water is right there.” The 1,500-square-foot house is just ten minutes from Spranger’s main residence in Wisconsin Rapids. He and his wife bought it in 2015, mainly as a refuge for their four grandchildren, who took to the water immediately. “I tied some floatation devices, like tubes and things like that, off from the end of the pier. They would run off the pier. It was an obstacle course for them. They’d jump off, swim up, back in. They did that for hours. Literally, until it was too dark to do it,” he remembered. “It’s been awesome.” Spranger didn’t think twice about his right to put in a pier in front of the home. But now, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has thrown his right, and the right of all waterfront landowners on flowages, into question. It’s a complex legal issue involving energy companies, paper mills, and property rights.
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