312 Ind. Admin. Code 5-7-14

Current through December 4, 2024

Section 312 IAC 5-7-14 - Tippecanoe River in White County and Carroll County; boating speed restrictions

Authority: IC 14-10-2-4; IC 14-11-2-1; IC 14-15-7-3; IC 14-29-1-8

Affected: IC 14

Sec. 14.

(a) This section governs the operation of boats on the Tippecanoe River in White County and Carroll County. Included are Lake Shafer, Lake Freeman, the navigable portions of Big Monon Creek, and their embayments.

(b) A person must not operate a boat at greater than idle speed on any of the following:

(1) The Tippecanoe River beginning at the Washington Street Bridge (U.S. Highway 24) located in Monticello and extending north to a water control structure known as the Norway Dam.

(2) The Tippecanoe River beginning at the Washington Street Bridge and extending south for ten thousand (10,000) feet. However, within a channel marked with buoys (placed by the department), a person may operate a boat at a speed not to exceed thirty (30) miles per hour, if the person does not tow a water ski, a water sled, a similar object, or a person.

(3) On an embayment of Lake Shafer formed by Timmon's Ditch (and sometimes referred to as Kean's Bay). The idle speed zone begins immediately east of a line running north and south at the mouth of Kean's Bay on the main body of Lake Shafer.

(4) On Big Monon Creek west of the bridge for Lake Shafer Drive.

(c) A person must not operate a boat in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour on an embayment of Lake Freeman formed by Snow Ditch and located northwest of the Oakdale Dam. The restricted zone shall be west of markers placed as follows:

(1) A monument shall be placed on the southeasterly most point of Clark Island in the mouth of the Snow Ditch Embayment and used as a turning point for the zone.

(2) The zone shall be marked with buoys in the water and a terrestrial marker on the island and on the western shore.

(3) North of Clark Island, the line shall be placed in a due northerly direction.

(4) South of Clark Island, the line shall angle southwesterly to the west shore where it will be marked by a monument placed at a thirty (30) degree angle from the monument on Clark Island.

312 IAC 5-7-14

Natural Resources Commission; 312 IAC 5-7-14; filed Mar 23, 2001, 2:50 p.m.: 24 IR 2377, eff Jan 1, 2002; readopted filed May 29, 2008, 1:53 p.m.: 20080625-IR-312080057RFA; errata filed Jun 2, 2009, 10:29 a.m.: 20090624-IR-312090386ACA; Readopted filed 7/17/2014, 3:46 p.m.: 20140813-IR-312140067RFA

Readopted filed 9/16/2020, 8:15 a.m.: 20201014-IR-312200355RFA