The Chain O’ Lakes is well known as a tourism magnet and economic engine for Lake County , but keeping the good times flowing requires some help.

That’s where the Fox Waterway Agency — a small, unassuming and somewhat unknown entity — comes in.

Its mission is to improve and maintain 7,100 acres of the Fox River and Chain for recreation; restore environmental quality; control flooding; promote tourism; and preserve and enhance the system for residents and visitors.

A key move that checks several of those boxes, waterway officials say, was the $2.4 million purchase of Bauske Boat Basin marina, strategically located on a channel between Nippersink and Pistakee lakes.

One of the main ways the agency pursues its mission is removing sediment that flows south from Wisconsin via the Fo

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