(Radio Iowa) — The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled the water body billed as the state’s “largest private lake” isn’t really private. Jeffrey Meyers was stopped in July of 2018 by conservation officers patrolling Lake Panorama after they notice he was illegally displaying blue lights on his pontoon boat. The officers determined Meyers was drunk and charged him with boating while intoxicated.

Meyers claimed the officers did not have jurisdiction because Lake Panorama near Panora is the state’s largest private lake. Signs around the lake make that claim The Iowa Supreme Court ruled the northwest side of the lake is accessible via the Middle Raccoon River — and that means the lake is not private. They upheld the charge against him.

(Read the full IASUPCO Opinion here: (https://www.iowacourts.gov/courtcases/7953/embed/SupremeCourtOpinion)