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	Name:	Capt M Brooks -
	Subject:	Watch Your Wake/Share the Lake Campaign Signs
	Date:	4/2/2013 6:14:36 PM

This campaign came about from a joint collaboration between several homeowners/boat owners groups around the state and the DCNR. We hope to raise the awareness of anyone who boats on public waters with regard to wake issues. There was a push back in 2007 that carried on for a couple of years to have a "proximity" regulation promulgated by the commissioner of the DCNR modeled after the one that exists in Georgia now. As with any current or future issue regarding boating in Alabama, there were people who supported such a regulation and people who opposed it. There was a change in administrations and the new commissioner chose to work with the stakeholder groups on a grass-roots level program: the Watch Your Wake/Share the Lake campaign. The LMRA and Lake Martin HOBOs were both involved in and instrumental in the process.

We believe that one of the best ways to modify behavior is through education and instead of us going at it alone we now have the support of the different associations around the state. Our first goal is to get the signs up in high visibility areas where large numbers of boats are.