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The Standard Examiner this morning had an article about the Willard marinas and how shallow they are. The nugget of the article is that it takes forever to get permits to dredge with heavy equipment, and while they are attempting to get those permits, in the meantime they are seeking volunteers to manually remove rocks from softball-sized to 40-pounds maximum.
I applaud the fact that they at least trying. Nothing will materially help except a lot more water. (I'm also secretly bemused that the ones suffering the most boat damage seem to be power squadron speed demons. You can't fix stupid, apparently.)
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[quote PACKFAN]+1, breaks my heart to hear some of the big power squadron boats are having problems[
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+3 Here, here. Now, is there some way to keep those pesky PWC from doing "donuts" in the water less than 100 feet away from where I am anchored? Short of shooting them of course.
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Had a run in at Deer Creek several years ago with a idiot on a PWC. I was in Wallsburg and he came in, way to close. I ignored it until he threw his wake into my boat. Unfortunately for him, my "fishing boat" has a 175 Merc on it and does 55mph fairly easy. was able to run him down, catch up to him, gave him a piece of my mind, told him that if he came near me again I would run him down, literally. It was a young kid with a bunch of people on the shore at the mouth of Wallsburg. One of the older men came over and was going to say something, but thought better of it when I told him to leave. Not only was the kid to close, but he was in a wakeless area to boot. Total stupidity !!!
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wonder if they would mind (the gate keeper at WB) if someone just so happened to bring in there own skid steer and remove some of the rocks? sounds like they want something done but they have there hands tied and cant do nothing.
how is the North marine now days?
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[#800000][font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]The gatekeepers would probably just love it. However, comma, it ain't that simple. [:/]
Since there are Federal, State, and local agencies involved in ownership and management, there are hundreds of standards, regulations, permits, and permissions required to do just about anything that would involve anything other than individual, manual labor. An individual (or a group of individuals) can pick up and move rocks by hand and probably escape scrutany. Maybe! But as soon as any type of machinery or equipment is brought into play, the microscopic oversight comes into play and the several agencies get their britches in a knot.
It's very
, really, but a very real sign of our times.
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