WOOO Annual Dinner

The Board will discuss the upcoming Rules Advisory Committees (RACs) currently being organized by the Department of State Lands (DSL).  WOOO members represent a wide group of waterway lessees including float home moorages, boat marinas, individual docks, commercial businesses with overwater facilities, etc.

The DSL is currently forming two upcoming statewide RACs of interest to WOOO:

1. Removal/fill (dredge) and wetlands delineation fees RAC meetings are slated to begin in July;
2. Waterway leasing rulemaking RAC is scheduled to begin in September.

BES has changed the definition of impervious surfaces to include overwater surfaces.  Additionally, the new rate structure does not state that over water surfaces are exempt from on-site stormwater fees despite verbal assurances and the special exemption granted by Commissioner Mingus Mapps last October. Tell Commissioner Mapps how you feel at MappsOffice@portlandoregon.gov.