Boat Speeds Explored: EID Board's Move Follows Earlier Bid to Ban Personal Watercraft on Silver Lake.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 15--El Dorado Irrigation District board members followed up a call for banning personal watercraft on Silver Lake with a request to limit boat speeds, a move that would effectively eliminate water skiing as well.
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By Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 4--On China's third-largest freshwater lake, sporty new pleasure boats ride the same waves as Chinese junks.  Brunswick Corp., the parent of Fond du Lac-based Mercury Marine Inc., has developed China's first private boating club.
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By Brent Champaco, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Mar. 8--Come boating season, Fox Island's only public launch becomes one of the busiest spots west of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  May 26--Two months after Thurston County issued a favorable environmental ruling on a grading permit for a proposed 25-foot-wide private road off Steamboat Island Road, county officials took it back for a do-over.
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By Dana M. Nichols, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 8--SAN ANDREAS -- The proposed Tuscany Hills project on Lake Tulloch might have finally cracked the impasse over how to resolve speedboat traffic jams on the popular lake.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 17--A long environmental battle over storm runoff into ocean waters off the Monterey Peninsula is close to over, though several local jurisdictions could still challenge details of the antipollution program.
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Don't make waves. Or a variation of the theme was presented Thursday night in Bismarck.  Increasing concerns about boating safety on the Missouri River prompted the North Dakota Game and Fish Department to call the session to discuss safety.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 11--A federal grant will revamp off-road trails at Finger Lakes State Park to keep riders out of a polluted stream on the land.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 15--Recent rains moved South Florida residents closer to eased water restrictions on Thursday. But the continued drop of Lake Okeechobee has state officials considering "backpumping" storm water into the lake, despite pollution concerns.
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By SCOTT HARPER  BY SCOTT HARPER  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  RICHMOND - The State Water Control Board rejected two major development proposals Wednesday - one on the Peninsula, the other on the Eastern Shore - in decisions cheered by environmentalists and watermen.
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By Travis Tritten, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 4--Residents get a first chance Monday to examine possible routes for a proposed highway to the South Strand.
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The skipper of super-maxi, Skandia, has called for more safety features to be built into ocean racing yachts. The Skandia crew abandoned the boat on Tuesday after the keel was damaged in rough conditions in Bass Strait.
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A coalition of environmental and conservation groups calls for a ban on the damaging fishing practice known as bottom-trawling.
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By Bryan Brasher brasher@commercialappealcom  POCAHONTAS, Tenn. -  As Bill Dance pulled his aluminum boat along Tennessee Highway 57 earlier this month, he found his progress impeded by a small city truck pouring liquid de-icer onto the asphalt in front of him.
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Jun. 6--WASHINGTON -- Recommendations in a national study on federal water pollution cleanup projects already are part of planned PCB dredging of the Hudson River at Fort Edward, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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By CHRISTINA ABEL  St. Johns County officials have been presented with a tough decision: Cut back the hours that people can drive on the beach by May 1, or lose permission to allow any beach driving at all.
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By Detroit Free Press  Sep. 11--The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week proposed banning the import and interstate transfer of silver carp, a long overdue step. They were brought into this country mostly by Southern fish farmers, who used them to clear their ponds of algae.