You
want your local lake to be suitable for boating, swimming, etc., expect to
pay for it. Don't expect the general taxpaying public who don't have
yachting waters, lakes, etc. to carry the freight for your leisure time
activities.

It's the general taxpaying public that has contributed to the silting. All the
upstream paving and developments increase stream flows so that more river bank
gets washed
out to form a delta.

Why should the boaters have to pay, exclusively, for environmental damage done
upstream by Suburbia and the WalMart parking lot?