BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 22, 2023
Ellsworth is moving ahead with implementing rules for mooring boats and other floating structures in its lakes. The City Council voted 4-2 Monday night in preliminary support of implementing rules that would prevent people from mooring boats or floats in local lakes and leaving them there for extended periods of time. The intent of the rules is to bar people from essentially claiming parts of the lakes for themselves by putting in moorings and tying up boats or floating docks for their private use. The issue of setting moorings in local lakes became an issue in 2021, when a couple of local residents who are not lakefront property owners moored what they called a “house float” in Green Lake.