New rules for boaters, kayakers on Weeki Wachee River now in effect

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New rules for boaters and kayakers are now being enforced on one of Florida’s favorite waterways.
Hernando County, FWC and community leaders were on hand Thursday to unveil and post new signs designating a 5.6-mile stretch of the beautiful Weeki Wachee River as a “Springs Protection Zone.” Anchoring, mooring, beaching and grounding of boats or kayaks in the river is now prohibited from Rogers Park through the state park.
“We still want you to come out and enjoy the river. We want you to swim and snorkel and do those things. It's just, we don't want you to anchor, we don't want you to beach your boat or your kayaks,” Hernando County Commissioner Brian Hawkins said.
The enforcement comes after a years-long push from locals and environmentalists to protect the river from human-caused degradation.
“It's shockingly wonderful. And I think that's one of the things that made us feel very, very motivated to try and protect it,” Jilan Crowley, a member of the Sierra Club who calls Hernando Beach home, said.
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@AbusedbyScientologist Месяц назад

I say put a 5 mile buffer zone on private and corporate properties that developers built on both sides of the river to have them removed .Or increase their water front property tax for polluting the river

@ZombieBiden Месяц назад

No one owns 5 miles of land to put a buffer on genius

@bnyob3463 Месяц назад

Are they looking at leaking septic tanks on the river?

@artlife6210 Месяц назад

I second this comment, and dont even go north and check the roadside flats on the way into Cedar Key, Floating sewage and the mud stinks like human waste.

@jonecancel Месяц назад

I was out there about a month ago and they got pipes running through the River and digging all over the place. But it's a swimmers and boaters that are ruining it right. The people that live on the river are the ones destroying it with all the chemicals in their lawns. The government ain't helping it much either

@ScreamingEagleFTW 24 дня назад

i noticed those ugly pipes too. I asked a worker what they are for, he said they are for dredeging sand and moving it over to a 'site' of some kind??

@DELANDIGS Месяц назад

Not enough, how about the toxic effect of yard chemicals? Landing boats is a private property issue and doesn't address the real problem.

@dimitriosfotopoulos3689 Месяц назад

I'm glad somebody sees this. IMO, fertilizers & pesticides are the biggest threat to Florida's waterways, followed closely by excessive development.

@iggYeWest Месяц назад

Exactly. So 1 anchor is a problem to the grass bed, or maybe 20 in a day. Yet hundreds of people walking and stepping on grass beds on daily basis is totally ok? These laws make zero sense

@MarkTrades__ Месяц назад

cries from his computer 🥱 Go clean something up in your local area then

@DELANDIGS Месяц назад

@@MarkTrades__ who? I've been environmentally pro active my entire life

@MarkTrades__ Месяц назад

@@DELANDIGS well sounds like you've got better things to do then be in this comments section. Let's go do some stuff today. Cheers man have a good one!

@MookMajor Месяц назад

protect it i was just out there a months ago they are dredging the whole thing how is that protecting it???????

@zackriden79 Месяц назад

can't really think of anyone just setting there anchored up biggest impact NEW HOME BUILDING get rid of that

@dimitriosfotopoulos3689 Месяц назад

Not sure if it's the biggest, but it certainly is one of them.

@lukerips1 Месяц назад

Tear out the vegetation that stabilises the stream to build those houses.

@floridaonatankful Месяц назад

Such a sad thing to happen. All because one lady wanted to make it only river lot residents only.

@Magaeatsboogers Месяц назад

Move the Homes back 1 mile and make fertilizers and pesticides illegal within 5 miles and watch it come back.

@highlifter1634 Месяц назад

They're closing the boat ramp on June 15th for dredging so how does that help the environment ?

@starcityofva Месяц назад

I drifted it in the late 70's when you rented a truck tube from a guy on the side of the road and just put in and drifted down to where you had the other car parked. Only remember one area towards the end that had any houses at all. Was beautiful then.

@Bonsai-Miata2020 Месяц назад

Take the tourist dollars elsewhere then, simple

@uncrit1 Месяц назад

..real issues are not addressed: Motor boats, uneducated (motorized) boaters, yard chemicals.

@djmurphy6033 Месяц назад

That cant have anything to do with the houses built there that spray chemicals on there grass and so much more...

@artlife6210 Месяц назад

Not to mention its best they get ahead of any situations that may arise as summer heat kicks in and people get sketchy.

@cavedivecamp6377 27 дней назад

Great job. Now all the boats will be floating around banging into everyone. What is worse a boat or a bunch of people trampling up the river? Can I tie off my inner tube ? Can someone please splain what the goal is here for this river?

@ScreamingEagleFTW 24 дня назад

what is mooring? what exactly are you allowed to do and not allowed to do?

@jet4415 Месяц назад

Humans…the bane of the Petri dish.

@eternalsun.3400 Месяц назад

About time

@Whalermansteve84 Месяц назад

How are we supposed to get out of our boats if we can’t anchor ? What about if we have a power pole ? That’s better than an anchor ..

@cavedivecamp6377 27 дней назад

I think that is the point. No more swimming!

@Whalermansteve84 11 дней назад

@@cavedivecamp6377 that’s lame. I know the state park has the sign up that says stay in your vessel. And I seen plenty of people recently on facebook posting pics of them partying, swimming and drinking too .: my luck is get busted lol

@Jonesingforever Месяц назад

Go to Rainbow Springs instead, its way better

@johnx4181 Месяц назад

No don't We are full

@dimitriosfotopoulos3689 Месяц назад

@@johnx4181 Hopefully not during the weekdays... 😉

@MarkTwain-my3zt 26 дней назад

What about scuba diving at hospital hole ?

@AlexKorobov Месяц назад

Can someone explain to me how you’re able to “snorkel and swim on the river” while not being able to beach/anchor your boat/kayak anywhere? Like actually, how the heck are you supposed to swim in the river, say if you’re on a kayak and you want to get out and go for a swim… how? Do you tie it to a tree? No, so how else? Where are you supposed to leave your kayak and how with the current ripping?? This literally makes no sense. Am I missing something here???? This law is basically forcing people to not swim or snorkel anywhere on the river since there’s no place for you to leave your kayak while do so! Haha.

@fishonkayakadventure Месяц назад

i'm confused as to why this isn't clear to you, grab the bow line on your kayak and go for a swim. pretty simple. so to answer your question, it seems you are missing common sense.

@robertburroughs8962 Месяц назад

I've snorkeled these beautiful springs/rivers. The best way to do it is paddle/motor upstream as far as you can and drift back slowly with the natural flow of current. You'll see much more and not be exhausted trying to swim against it. I toss a line in the water and grab it when needed.

@davidgough3512 Месяц назад

it's called tethering. just slide a bowline loop over your shoulder and drift along with your craft.. better than forced swimming against the current to regain your boat. drift dives are standard practice in Florida.

@AlexKorobov Месяц назад

@@davidgough3512 Ok, next time you go to week wachi, get yourself a bowline and drift down the river/snorkel with your 16/17’ boat and film yourself doing it so we can all see how it’s done. I’m a full time Florida resident for the last 10 years so I know how things are here. Thank you

@davidgough3512 Месяц назад

@@AlexKorobov i'm a lifelong 70 yr old floridian, norCal, b.c.surfer, waterman.. snorkel-rig scuba ("snuba") works this way, drift diving coastal reefs works this way.. most kayaks are 10' -14'.. it's easy.. best harness is to the waist, but have a quick release

@wjstewdog Месяц назад

How does beaching a kayak hurt the sand? Limiting access is horrible

@yankeesusa1 Месяц назад

Go back and look at video again. It'll help you understand

@stevenshome3970 Месяц назад

It’s true. As a kid it was pretty. More like a toilet now.

@MarkTrades__ Месяц назад

GUYS ITS ONLY HALF THE RIVIER JFC USE THE OTHER HALF WOW ITS CALLED COMPROMISE AND BALANCING EVERYONES INTERESTS CMON YALL

@gregm5636 Месяц назад

did she say ''crown in the jewel' ????

@TadaYada Месяц назад

So you might want to get a GPS controlled trolling motor to hold your boat or kayak from floating away...I think this new law is expecting people to not stop at all if you can't anchor anywhere. They figured that's one way they can tell everyone to stop from stopping without telling everyone to stop from stopping if you get me..loophole against loophole I guess.

@thatguy7085 Месяц назад

Keep it clean… please

@cchad5521 Месяц назад

So go swimming without a boat. You can swim 5.6 miles right

@yankeesusa1 Месяц назад

Huh? They didn't say you couldn't use a boat or kayak. Did you even watch the video?

@cmh9932 Месяц назад

Yes please everyone in this comment section bitching about the fact that they've done this..... absolutely for the love of God please take your tourist money and selves somewhere else! The whole reason that they're doing this is because it's being ruined..... meaning, it won't be here for anybody to visit or completely turned into a trash hole like so many other areas of Florida . Ppl can be so dense. I am a born and raised Florida girl and what I see being done to my States geography and nature rips my soul out.... these places are some of the last of their kind and they're being destroyed because people don't know how to respect and take care of the land😢 like it doesn't even cross their mind the entitlement of it all😞

@REPR100 Месяц назад

The existing home owners there just want it to themselves, nothing to do with conservation, get back to waiting tables

@JoshuaHopson-zz8gn 24 дня назад

It’s always the little peoples fault! Never mind the pollution and eroding from business’s surrounding the area.

@ScreamingEagleFTW 24 дня назад

yep, its those damn kayakers floating down the river they are destroying everything (sarc)

@foreverendeavors6210 Месяц назад

Like parking your car on an infinite hill in neutral.

@vanvelzenl Месяц назад

Actual content: 1:07 - 1:08.

@bobbyj28 Месяц назад

The good news is the state is still going to make their money by letting a thousand kayakers a day down the river. Do they honestly think they will not stop along the way?

@ScreamingEagleFTW 24 дня назад

$140 each one that stops.. thats good income!

@jd-it4on Месяц назад

Now we just need a new rule to stop the loud annoying rap music

@floridaonatankful Месяц назад

Ok karen

@Anthony-pi6pf Месяц назад

that would be called infringing on a constitutional right, and it aint gonna happen karen.

@ScreamingEagleFTW 24 дня назад

@@Anthony-pi6pf last I checked there is a portage law that allows an easement on all property on a riverside for boaters to walk , moor, anchor their boats. If they can violate that, they can violate loud music. Besides that, there are laws against noise.

@Anthony-pi6pf 24 дня назад

@@ScreamingEagleFTW laws against unreasonable noise. There’s a difference.

@bobbyj28 Месяц назад

How are you supposed to swim and snorkel if you can’t stop anywhere on the river.

@nerbur Месяц назад

0:40 “Unique crown in the jewel of Florida…” She’s trying so hard to sound smart, but… 😂😂😂

@whitneyk5926 Месяц назад

Just fyi a lot of locals voted against this …it’s terrible, but it will cut down on people wanting to come now lol 😂… this isn’t from boats and if youre from that area we all know this ..

@brandontodd3799 Месяц назад

I've been down weeki wachee River in my boat for years and this will cause people to stop boating there because the current on the river is so strong you will not be able to stop and swim.. this will kill the economy..

@richardmesser1091 Месяц назад

Opinions are not facts

@dimitriosfotopoulos3689 Месяц назад

Wrong. Fewer motorized boats equates to more more paddlers & swimmers, but they will do less damage. They will spend their money instead, so keep your stinkpots and your filthy lucre.

@28704joe Месяц назад

The river isn't there for the economy, it was there first,

@rea8755 Месяц назад

Great job, Protecting Florida. Now for all the sand bars. I'm so tired of watching RU-vid videos of idiots anchoring on Seagrass beds, setting up barbecues and tables on top of Seagrass beds as they hold boat brand parties. Stop the stupidity 😊

@bbrcummins1984 Месяц назад

Just more destruction of a once peaceful river, I sure miss old Florida

@bobbysmith7528 Месяц назад

Why not implement pole anchors instead? A 1” fiberglass rod, this goes deeper. It’s the most corrupt county around.

@robertd7073 Месяц назад

1:29 COP NAMED ROTHCHILD? OHH YEAH, HE WILL TAX WITH FREEDOM TICKETS.....

@user-fe1jh1yf4c Месяц назад

Haha the big money family are the Rothschilds. Ole boy is missing an S

@goober698 Месяц назад

KRens hmmm

@will5286 Месяц назад

BOUT FRIKKIN TIME

@user-mh6kk9fo3g Месяц назад

Funny how people don’t own the water make rules for people who love the water and want to enjoy the river and swim and have a great day but the Karen’s of the river don’t want that. How about all the shit the put on there yards where do they think it drain when it rains oh yea right in the river. Simple fix to the problem gotta find the loop hold in the rules no beach shoring mooring or anchoring ok cool nothing about putting a push pole on and tying to that not break any rules that way.

@rea8755 Месяц назад

Ok troll