[OSMB-News] News Release -Marine Board to Discuss Proposed Rules during Special Meeting

Ashley Massey ashley.massey at state.or.us
Mon Jul 20 15:23:37 PDT 2009


For Immediate Release	Date: Monday, July 20, 2009

Marine Board to Discuss Proposed Rules during Special Meeting

	The Marine Board will hold a special meeting to hear proposed
rules for the Holgate Channel and Ross Island Lagoon on July 27, from 6
to 9 p.m. at the Portland Building.  The Board will accept limited
public testimony.  
	In March, the Marine Board received a petition, which was
modified in April, requesting a no-wake-zone in the Holgate Channel
between Ross Island and the east bank of the Willamette River and in the
Ross Island Lagoon.  The petition was submitted by Willamette
Riverkeeper, the Urban Green Spaces Institute and the Portland Audubon
Society.  A public hearing was held May 27 with public comment accepted
throughout May.  The Board decided to address this petition by holding a
special meeting in close proximity to the waterbody.  
	Marine Board staff is recommending the following proposed
language for discussion at the meeting: 
No person shall operate a recreational watercraft in excess of
slow-no-wake in the following area:
●	Ross Island Lagoon
●	Holgate Channel from a line extending northeast from the north
side of the Ross Island Lagoon mouth to the east side of the channel,
and to a line extending from the southern (upstream) tips of Ross Island
due south to the Oregon Yacht Club.
●	This restriction does not apply to commercially operated vessels
including those owned or operated for sand and gravel operations.
For related information about the proposed rules, visit
http://www.boatoregon.com/OSMB/BoatLaws/ProposedRules.shtml.
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Ashley A. Massey
Public Information Officer
Oregon State Marine Board
503-378-2623
503-378-8587 ext. 82623
ashley.massey at state.or.us

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