12.11.805    TONGUE RIVER RESERVOIR

(1) Tongue River Reservoir is located in Big Horn County.

(2) Tongue River Reservoir is limited to a controlled no wake speed, as defined in ARM 12.11.101(1), in the following areas:

(a) from shoreline to 300 feet from shoreline from the south point that forms Corral Creek Bay (DNRC cabin site) , north to the face of the dam, west along the dam face, and south along the west shore of the reservoir to the point where the Tongue River enters the reservoir;

(b) as buoyed in the marina area at Campers Point;

(c) Campers Point Bay;

(d) Cormorant Bay;

(e) Corral Creek Bay (DNRC cabin site bay);

(f) Neck Bay;

(g) Pee Wee Point Bay;

(h) Rattlesnake Bay; and

(i) Tongue River from the Wyoming border to the Tongue River Reservoir.

(3) The following are exceptions to (2):

(a) personal watercraft which must maintain a certain minimum operating speed to remain upright and maneuver in the water may travel at that minimum operating speed following the most direct route through the no wake zone to and from shore; and

(b) motorized watercraft towing a skier from a dock or the shore.

History: 23-1-106, 87-1-303, MCA; IMP, 23-1-106, 87-1-303, MCA; NEW, 2001 MAR p. 18, Eff. 1/12/01; AMD, 2011 MAR p. 901, Eff. 5/27/11.