Warren County supervisors are flummoxed over whether to support construction of a pavilion near Messina Landing at Eagle Lake.

Earlier this month, a group called Save Historic Eagle Lake told supervisors they sought a building permit to build a 24-by-30-foot metal building next to the restroom at the county-owned launch off Mississippi 465.

The facility could host parties for holidays and birthdays for the lakeside community’s 600 or so residents, members said. The estimated cost was $4,200 and would include a support slab.

“We’re willing to do landscaping and make the area look nice,” Kim Koppman, a businesswoman and lakefront resident who supports the idea told members of the Warren County Board of Supervisors during a meeting two weeks ago.

Another contingent, led by lake property owners Dr. Angela Koestler and John Wheeless, on Monday showed photos of fish and wild game remains it says would litter the grounds.

To date, no public discussion has taken place with proponents and opponents in the same venue, and the board on Monday stopped short of calling the groups together.

Supervisors said litter and dumping is a pivotal issue because no receptacles are at the launch. Residential garbage pickup at Eagle Lake is handled by Jackson-based Waste Pro of Mississippi Inc., one of five contract haulers outside Vicksburg. Litter at Eagle Lake and LeTourneau boat launches is usually picked up by the Road Department.

“My only thing with it is the garbage that would be a problem,” Board President Bill Lauderdale said after the group left. Lauderdale said the county’s support should be tied to strict disposal of garbage and general peace.

“People come out their boats with sandwich bags and stuff. They either take it with them or throw it out on the parking lot. Some people throw it out like the picture you saw or throw out beer cans. You’ll always have that with the boat landing.”

Currently, contracted firms cut grass at the Eagle Lake and LeTourneau boat landings.

“My point is that if we’re going to be in control of it, in maintenance of it, I don’t know if we need to have it built,” said District 2 Supervisor William Banks, whose district covers the northwest Warren County community.

“Once they put it on that property, it belongs to Warren County,” District 5 Supervisor Richard George said, adding a pavilion near the boat launch could turn into “a skinnin’ rack” if supporters don’t convince anglers, party-goers and others to mind their garbage.

If built, the structure would not have to be built to base flood elevation because the structure would be uninhabited and does not have its own restroom, Warren County Emergency Management director John Elfer said Monday. In 2010, the restroom was built above the hundred-year flood standard to be eligible for state grant funding.