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Posted by }<)))*> StriperChaser on December 17, 2005, 6:47 am Smith Mountain Lake isn’t likely to get the boating speed limits recommended by an The concept was pretty much of a dead issue from the beginning, but it does not Perhaps the biggest victory in this issue is the good chance that DGIF will get full Also likely to receive considerable attention is mandatory boating education for boat Massengill presented an excellent idea to the Task Force concerning boating BILL
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SPEED LIMIT BAD IDEA
11-member Smith Mountain Lake Water Safety Task Force. At a public meeting near
the lake Tuesday, Col. Gerald Massengill, interim director of DGIF, told the Task
Force that he would not support speed limits. DGIF backing would be vital for limits
to succeed.
mean that the Task Force has failed. Indeed, the group has drawn attention to
safety issues at the lake. What it likely will get is what it needs most, more game
wardens to patrol the heavily boated 20,000-acre lake.
funding of Virginia’s 2-percent watercraft sales and use tax. During the past three
years, some of this money has been diverted to non-boating expenditures by the
General Assembly. These funds should be used for boating safety efforts, including
more warden patrols.
operators. Massengill is recommending that training be phased in over an eight- to
10-year period. This is similar to how mandatory hunter education evolved. It started
with youngsters and new hunters.
education. Why not let it begin by requiring violators of boating laws to complete a
course as part of their penalty, he suggested. Let’s do it! 
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