HYDROS: Need reasonable limits

Last Saturday I was on my boat approximately 500 feet south of the boom-dock at the hydro races when a sheriff’s marine patrol boat approached me and threatened me with a ticket if I did not move another 2,000 feet south. He stated the racing organizers had control of the lake for 1/2 mile from their boom-dock.

If the city agreed to this it is another example of why they are unfit for office. Why was the marine patrol providing resources to protect the profit margin of a private operation? If this is the way the hydros want to run their races they may find more spirited objection to them returning next year.

Also, does the city actually have the authority to enforce such an agreement? Who actually owns the lake at that point? I could understand enforcing a reasonable no-wake zone around the boom-dock, but to have a 1/2 mile buffer zone only for boats not paying to tie up at the dock is not reasonable.

Come on city administrators, use your heads, stop proving how incompetent you are.

DOUGLAS INGRAM

Post Falls