Development and golf course plan have some worried about impact to Black Earth Creek
BARRY ADAMS
Updated
Michelle Harris, a member of the Black Earth Creek Watershed Association, looks at a computer image of the 105-square-mile watershed while seated in front a mural of the creek. The group is concerned about negative impacts on the creek from a proposed housing and golf course development in the village and is calling for an independent study to determine if the development will harm the creek and its springs.
The Festge Springs Complex feeds fresh water to the Black Earth Creek and is located across Highway 14 from where developers Jeff and Kyle Haen are proposing a 480-acre housing and golf course development. Advocates for the watershed are concerned that the project could harm the creek and springs and are calling for an independent study.
What is now farmland and woods just east of Cross Plains would be transformed into a 470 homes and a championship golf course that winds through trees and near bluffs. This section along Airport Road is where the proposed first phase of Marchstone would create about 125 homes.
Kyle Haen, left, and his father, Jeff Haen, have partnered to develop Pioneer Pointe, a 13-hole golf course and 89-unit housing development in the town of Middleton. Jeff Haen is a longtime developer in the Madison area and in 2001 opened Hawks Landing.
Homes along Twin Pine Street just south of Glacier Creek Middle School in Cross Plains border the 480 acres of farmland and woods where developers Jeff and Kyle Haen want to build Marchstone, a housing and golf course development.
What was once a millpond near downtown Cross Plains is now home to Zander Park, through which the meandering Black Earth Creek flows. This area is a key spawning site for trout.
The Festge Springs Complex feeds fresh water to the Black Earth Creek and is located across Highway 14 from where developers Jeff and Kyle Haen are proposing a 480-acre housing and golf course development. Advocates for the watershed are concerned that the project could harm the creek and springs and are calling for an independent study.
What was once a millpond near downtown Cross Plains is now home to Zander Park, through which the meandering Black Earth Creek flows. This area is a key spawning site for trout.
What is now farmland and woods just east of Cross Plains would be transformed into a 470 homes and a championship golf course that winds through trees and near bluffs. This section along Airport Road is where the proposed first phase of Marchstone would create about 125 homes.
Homes along Twin Pine Street just south of Glacier Creek Middle School in Cross Plains border the 480 acres of farmland and woods where developers Jeff and Kyle Haen want to build Marchstone, a housing and golf course development.
Kyle Haen, left, and his father, Jeff Haen, have partnered to develop Pioneer Pointe, a 13-hole golf course and 89-unit housing development in the town of Middleton. Jeff Haen is a longtime developer in the Madison area and in 2001 opened Hawks Landing.
Michelle Harris, a member of the Black Earth Creek Watershed Association, looks at a computer image of the 105-square-mile watershed while seated in front a mural of the creek. The group is concerned about negative impacts on the creek from a proposed housing and golf course development in the village and is calling for an independent study to determine if the development will harm the creek and its springs.
