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	Name:	lakemartintime -
	Subject:	Boating Safety
	Date:	5/14/2007 10:16:14 PM

We spent several years trying to get the Marine Police's approval to install a no wake buoy in our slough. Not only were we unable to get an approval we never received the application we were promised several times. The Marine Police basically told us that no residential sub division would be approved for a no wake buoy. Our slough is fairly wide as it opens into main channel but narrows rapidly into two small sloughs of 300' to a 150'. At any given time we may have 25 kids and adults swimming in these sloughs. Irresponsible boaters consistently speed through the slough at full wake or are pulling a wake board or a tub. This is a safety issue, someone is going to get hurt (not even considering the severe dock damage some of our home owners suffered).

Last year after seeing at least 50 illegal buoys (no wake and mooring) on our part of the lake we felt at least we had precedent approval to install a no wake buoy. We installed this buoy ($275 I think) with good visibility on the side of the main slough close to where the channel begins. Bingo...99% of these speeders stopped we thought we had found the answer....BUT....about two months after we installed the buoy one of our home owners witnessed the Marine Police use a bolt cutter to cut the cable and load the buoy into the police boat. We called the Marine Police and they admitted they took the buoy because it was not approved. They also refused to return our property.

There are still 50 plus illegal buoys in our area of the lake but the Marine Police seem to enforce the laws selectively, but we will never report these other illegal buoys and compromise the safety of anyone!

I believe this may be a severe safety issue and hope the Marine Police would reconsider

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