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217, Lake Anna, VA 23117-0217
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| Hi all! I plan to make this be the first page of LACAs website, with a link to click to "enter the site".
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| NEWS | Lake Anna Special Area Plan -- The Facts
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Earlier this year, LACA was accused of submitting a Special Area Plan to the Louisa Board of Supervisors with recommendations to restrict water skiing, sailing, horsepower of boats, etc etc. This is simply not true. The facts are:
- The Lake Anna Special Area Plan was developed in March 2000 by a committee assembled by the Boards of Supervisors of the three Counties at the request of the Lake Anna Advisory Committee (NOT LACA).
- In the plan there are NO recommendations to restrict recreational use. However an Appendix provides information copies of previous studies and plans. The first plan included in the appendix was done in 1971 by Dominion Power. It has recommendations on recreation (page 80 of 113) as follows:
"XII. Consider joint regulations for water use: (N)
A. Limit horsepower of boats in fishing areas,
B. Ban powerboats from beach and swimming areas
C. Direct water skiing to large expanses, away from narrow areas, beaches, and marinas."
The big "N" means this recommendation was NOT included in the Lake Anna Special Area Plan.
- Clearly the allegations that LACA has made these recommendations are false. Neither LACA nor LAAC made the alleged recommendations and Dominion who made the recommendations has not pursued them since 1971.
- The plan is on the LACA web site strictly for informational purposes.
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| I found another mention of this erroneous "news" in a forum at DCwake.com. This would be a good place to reiterate LACA's mission statement about boating safety and community involvement, education, etc -- or anything else the Board wants to say.~Beck
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