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Board discusses navigation hazards and proposes navigation fairways and stronger marine code enforcement
Summary
Board members showed GIS examples of boats and docks exceeding channel rules in narrow bends, discussed state law and FWC enforcement, and proposed identifying special navigation districts, enforcing existing rules and pursuing a dedicated marine code officer; staff will draft recommendations for the commission.
Members and staff spent a substantial portion of the Dec. 4 meeting on navigation, enforcement and channel congestion in the New River. Bob Franks and several captains presented GIS imagery showing docks and boats encroaching beyond the 25-foot repair/setback lines and, in some cases, exceeding 30% of the channel in tight bends.
"If we can define what that waterway is and actually come up with what that waterway should be," Franks said, "then we…
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