GRDA Seeks Comments on Docks

The Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) is seeking public comment as it considers whether to adopt a policy that would limit the total maximum length of all piers, wharves, landings, floating boat houses, docks, breakwaters and/or barges and other floating structures of a stationary or semi-stationary nature, commercial or private, extending in to the lands and waters of GRDA, including all attachments, such as stiff-arms, spars, approaches, walkways, gangplanks and/or ramps to one-third of the distance from the adjacent shoreline, measured across the land and water of GRDA to the nearest opposite shoreline. This would eliminate the 125 foot rule.
Also, to adopt a policy to allow parallel slip entry on docks. This would eliminate the requirement that all docks have perpendicular slip entry.
The GRDA will host two public meetings to solicit comments on the following dates, at the specified times and locations: December 15th, 2005 7:00 P.M.Grand Lake Association Visitor Center,Grove, OK. and January 3, 2006, 1:30 P.M.GRDA Board Room, Vinita.
In addition to the public hearings, interested members of the public unable to attend one of these meetings are encouraged to direct written comments and questions about this issue to Dr. Darrell Townsend, Superintendent of Ecological Operations, GRDA, Box 409, Vinita, OK.