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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Newly-Dredged Channel Leads Historic Burnt Rollways Boat Hoist Into Summer Season
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:53
	Publish Date:		2020-05-28 05:49:00
	Description:		From a few yards away, a woman and four small children watch a massive machine rumble to life. They stand, look, and point as a boat is lifted by the Burnt Rollways Boat Hoist, carried over a road and dam, and dropped gently in the water on the other side. “It’s a novelty,” said Scott Blado, who is operating the machine. “It’s just kind of a thing that you go and do. It’s not really a ‘we’ve got to go that way’ kind of thing. It’s more of an event.” This week, operators fired up the hoist, the only one of its kind in the state, for the summer season. For more than a century, it’s been lifting fishing boats, pontoons, and speedboats over a dam that separates the Eagle River and Three Lakes chains of lakes. This summer, thanks to the removal of countless tons of sand on a nearby water channel, boaters can navigate freely once again. Blado, who works for the Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company (WVIC), may call it a novelty. But it’s actually written into Wisconsin state statute . When
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