Category: noise levels

Thursday, 10 a.m.-noon, Maryland Boat Act Advisory Committee meeting, Kent Island Yacht Club, 117 Yacht Club Drive, Chester. The committee will discuss the 2011 regulatory requests and be briefed on recent regulatory changes to vessel noise on Deep Creek Lake and other matters. The public is welcome to attend.

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>Jay’s note: Was anyone at the meeting here locally? How did it go? Drop me an email 🙂

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Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 3:00 am | Updated: 9:58 am, Thu May 26, 2011.

Boaters, residents at odds over noise reduction plan By Wendy Gilbert Mariner Editor Cecil Whig | 2 comments

A proposal to limit boat noise on Cecil County rivers split residents largely into two camps at a Tuesday night hearing: Older waterfront property owners and younger “performance boating” enthusiasts.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources officials hosted the session at Elkton High School on pending regulations to quiet noisy boats on the Bohemia, Elk and Northeast rivers as well as the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

Bob Gaudette, director of boating services, said the agency gets a lot of telephone calls about the breach of the waterfront peace. Other than Deep Creek Lake, there are few places in the state that generate as many complaints, he said….

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>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: May 24, 2011 – 12:08 am

ELKTON, Md. — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is seeking tighter restrictions on speed boat noise in two popular boating areas.

The agency is holding a hearing Tuesday night in Elkton on boat noise levels in the northeastern Chesapeake Bay.

It will hold another hearing Thursday at Deep Creek Lake State Park regarding noise levels on that western Maryland lake.

DNR officials say the two areas account for more than half of the state’s boat-noise complaints.

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