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New no-wake zone along river
Today's News-Herald
Saturday March 3, 2012
The Lake Havasu Marine Association has released a map detailing the new no-wake zone along the Colorado River near Catfish Bay.
The Association deepened a half-mile portion of hazardous, shallow river three miles upstream from the Bridgewater Channel in December 2011. The depth reportedly increased from around two feet in the area to four feet.
Twenty-four buoys will alert boaters to the new nowake zone. The Association fundraised nearly $60,000 for the project, which has been determined to improve boating safety in the area.
Association Executive Director Jim Salscheider said it was a “good question” whether local and visiting boaters will be happy to trade speed for safety in the area. “There are a lot of tourists who were afraid to do that,” he said. “It’s a beautiful area over there by Catfish Bay, but it’s safe, you don’t have to worry about tearing out your outdrive. (It’s) especially good for our tourists and locals who don’t want to take the high-risk approach.”
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Today's News-Herald
Published Friday, November 18, 2011 8:24 AM MST
At its core, dredging a river bottom is a pretty unglamorous project. But the results of dredging a reliable channel between Lake Havasu and the Colorado River will offer bountiful benefits to boaters. If all goes as planned, the dredging could begin around the beginning of December, says Jim Salscheider, the head of the Lake Havasu Marine Association. Finished, it will connect Catfish Bay with the river using a 50-foot-wide channel. This will eliminate the guesswork and uncertainty of shallow water in the area, a place described as a chokepoint in the 60 mile cruise between Parker and Davis dams. The project has wide support, especially among the various law enforcement agencies on the lake, because of safety. Though there are few serious accidents in the area, officials say it’s only a matter of time before a tragedy occurs if the shallow area is left alone. Even without bloodshed, the area eats boat props unmercifully.
The Marine Association had to do a lot of onshore navigation to get the dredging approved. More than a half dozen federal and state agencies have a say in the permitting, offering ample opportunities for delays. That the job is likely to get done in December, arguably one of the least popular boating months, is a remarkable testament to the persistence of the Marine Association and its executive director.
The project seems to enjoy wide support among boaters as well as officials. The only point of contention is over the no-wake zone created by the channel’s buoy line. Some argue that other shallow water in the area make on-plane boating the safest way to get through the area, a contention that probably depends greatly upon the individual boat. For most, a safer, calmer transit is probably worth an extra couple of minutes enduring no-wake speeds. And for many of those, it will take no extra time because many boaters take it very slow though the area now. Though there’s some debate about the depth of the new channel, due to river flow fluctuations, it is designed to be at least four feet deep, says Salscheider. Right now, the water level is a foot or less at times.
The dredging offers a great improvement. Congratulations to the Marine Association for its strong work on the project.
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