Page 18 - 2024 Lake St Clair Guide

and the winner was...

Lake St. Clair
Hazard
- LET’S GO! Cont. from Page 14 replace these with permanent lighted markers - yes
Mitigation
Team

(see photos below). This area is STILL very confus-
ing to understand where this “underwater very long they should! So please review this location thor-
rock wall” is exactly, and boats still missed the mark-
oughly - or keep Tow BoatUS number handy.
ers last season and were severely damaged. And The second hazard, which has been an issue
keep in mind like most markers, the USCG removes for 15+ years, was the removal of a giant tree that
these in the fall and replaces them in the spring. The had been in the middle of the Octagon House cut...
GET READY Coast Guard is doing a study to see if they should thank you very much!
Harsen’s
GULL ISLAND
Island

HEADING INTO THE
SOUTH CHANNEL
FROM LAKE ST. CLAIR
line with our lower water level, is approx.
2200 feet long and is now marked by buoys
With the 2023 launch of the Lake This rock wall below - inches above the water
St. Clair Hazard Mitigation page on every 500’ or so thanks to the efforts of
Facebook, 2000+ members joined Freedom Boat Club Hazard Mitigation Team.
up and reported a variety of sub-
merged safety threats with locations. A variety of logs,
trees, stumps, and garbage ... along with a Clinton River

clean up day, were attended to throughout the season by
the Freedom Boat Club Captains, their several volunteers
including Steven Dobreff, Travis Roy, Trevor Walczy, Ethan
Dobreff, along with many Lake St. Clair volunteer boaters
last season.
Being that Freedom Boat Club members and captains
X 2? are some of the first boats on the wa-
ter at the beginning of the season, they Cont. Page 25

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