Some of the buoys removed by Transport Canada and the CSRD.
Image Credit: Columbia Shuswap Regional District
November 25, 2023 - 7:00 PM
Local government officials have removed dozens of non-compliant buoys from Shuswap Lake following public complaints.
Transport Canada’s Navigation Protection Program teamed up with the Columbia Shuswap Regional District to deal with hundreds of buoys in Shuswap Lake that do not comply with regulations.
The district and Transport Canada often receive complaints about non-compliant buoys posing a hazard to boats on Shuswap lake.
Officials tagged 342 non-compliant buoys on the lake in early summer to give the buoy owners a chance to remove them. In October officials removed 28 non-compliant buoys from the lake.
The district says if buoys don’t comply with regulations regarding size, colour, and identification they create a hazard for boaters on the lake.
Removing hazardous buoys is something the government does regularly. Between 2018 and 2023 the government tagged 969 buoys and removed 166 buoys from Mara and Shuswap Lakes.
Most of these non-compliant buoys are removed by their owners after the government tags them.
While workers were removing buoys in October they discovered a sunken boat in the Tappen Bay area and marked it with a cautionary buoy until they have the opportunity to deal with it.
For more information on Transport Canada’s buoy regulations go here.
For more information on the district’s buoy regulations go here.
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