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Conservation Coriudssion <br /> June 6, 1991 <br /> Page 11. <br /> HAYES: Well, I was in here at low water and all I can say is that you've got <br /> trough in here. <br /> IESROSIERS: A distance of 28 feet and you extend it by 5 feet, you've got 33 feet, <br /> ramp length show here is 30 feet. <br /> HAVES: So ramp length would have to go to almost +C feet. <br /> ESROSIERS: Unless there is a heavier ramp, and a heavier ramp would only sink the <br /> .oat more and bottom out. <br /> HAYE : It is an aluminum ramp, I don't think that is going to have that big of an <br /> impact. I think-i that- would resolve the issue. <br /> OFFE : To me the 30 foot ramp is a technological stretch as it is. To get it out <br /> to a 40 foot free--span is really reaching for it. That strikes me as an unusual <br /> technology to make the application work and is outside the norms.. <br /> LA IK: It does say here they can do it, fabricated to special order. <br /> COFFEY: A technological wonder, but the point here is if you're going out to <br /> float that is temporary structure and stretch it with this bridge to reach it, <br /> it is really str tching things. This isn't a matter of a plan and a hop and a <br /> skip from the bank to the ramp. <br /> HAVES: But it is a solution to this situation that from an engineering standpoint <br /> is something they can do by special order. <br /> I YER: If you were to turn it, you've already created the dam-age, the problem is <br /> already here, would that lessen the Mitigating. . . . . <br /> ESRIERS: I thin you've answered it. what I'm saying is that we have no guarantee <br /> that when a. person, and there will be other persons that pull up to- this ramp, pull <br /> their boat backwards, that they are not going to turn at an angle, turn around, give <br /> it Mottle and further dredge this channel, kick up siltation, do more damage to the <br /> eel grass and damage the shellfish habitat. I think they should be discouraged from <br /> comi .g in that shallow with boats in an area such as this. I think we obviously have <br /> floats at the same elevation that shouldn't be there and they are going to be <br /> encouraged to try to come in closer; all we're going to do is to encourage this <br /> all the way down the coastline. Aren't we here to protect our coastlines, not <br /> encourage more damage? If we are really looking to get a corrective situation <br /> out of this, we 1 re looking at trying to get this' fellow to put a float further out <br /> and use a rowboat here to go further out to his mooring; that's done by many people. <br /> RAYE : But the regulations that allow for this Moat. . (DESROSIERS: D y conscience <br /> will not allow me to buy that, if you wart rye to go along with this gentleman, that's <br /> what you asked rye, ghat can we de together, I'm telling you what I could do to. work <br /> wi th you. <br /> HAS: You want him to use a rowboat? <br /> ERIER : I want him to use a dinghy, rowboat, any way, which many people do to <br /> get to a mooring where they have larger vessels. I think to ask to bring a 23 boat <br /> with a 16-18-20 inch draft- into that shallow water is-not conducive to good conser- <br /> vation. <br /> HAVES: What more can I say, we've agreed t enterta-.n the thought o even kiddy. <br /> cornering the ramp and extending it out to the existing float as it sits, From <br />