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ATTENTION: IMPORTANT UPDATE

Please read this special notice carefully. 

 If you are a CURRENT MOORING PERMIT HOLDER or your MOORING GEAR REMAINS IN THE WATERWAY WITHOUT A CURRENT PERMIT (you have relinquished or permit has been revoked) this applies to you.

 SPECIAL NOTICE REGARDING RE-GRID OF NORTH SIDE MOORING FIELD:

The Dartmouth Waterways Management Commission is responsible for regulating the safe allocation of the greatest number of accommodations within the public waterway.  Padanaram North Harbor will be re-gridded with all mooring sites re-aligned on the basis of the size and characteristics of each registered vessel of record.  The need for the planned re-grid lies in the current irregular distribution of sites, inconsistent swing circles, draft constrictions and high public demand for moorings.  Mooring re-grid is scheduled to start 3-16-2012.   All mooring locations north of the Padanaram Bridge will be adjusted by the mooring service provider offering the lowest bid. Dartmouth Waterways will be funding the movement of ALL properly marked and currently-inspected mooring gear.  CURRENT, VALID Mooring Inspections are a pre-requisite for a continued permit and relocation into the new grid.  Any mooring gear found without proper markings (mooring number, name) for identification cannot be moved into the new grid and must be removed from the waterway as an impediment to navigation and this project.  Please read the following instructions below:

 ·         If you have scheduled your past due inspection with your provider and notified this office already we have made note of it.

·         Mooring Permit renewals and waterway fees remain due by March 31, 2012 as stated on your recently mailed Waterway Invoice.  If you have not received your invoice please contact our office immediately.  Upon completion of this re-grid project, you will be notified of your new permit location, but only if your gear was able to be identified and moved during the regrid project to be completed prior to June of 2012.

·         If you no longer hold a mooring permit for gear you left in the north harbor (it was relinquished or revoked), you must have the gear removed immediately.  Mooring gear without a permit will NOT be moved into the new grid at the Town’s expense. To sell your mooring gear left in the waterway without a permit, please contact one of the three recognized commercial mooring providers for Dartmouth Waters: Concordia, Inc. (508)999-1381; Davis & Tripp (508)993-9232; or Pioneer Mooring Service (508)984-1969.  The Town does not become involved in the sale of personal (mooring gear) property, but such gear cannot remain in the waterways under federal, state and local regulations. 

·         Any un-permitted, or un-identifiable mooring gear left in the north harbor must be considered abandoned.  As such, it will be removed and stored at the owner’s sole expense for no longer than 30 days.  Refer to Dartmouth Mooring Regulations (#17: “mooring buoys and markings” and #21 “winter stakes”) for required, visible markings on mooring floats and winter sticks. (http://www.dartmouthharbormaster.com/rulesandregs/mooring_regulations.php)

·         Please continue watching the Waterways website (www.dartmouthharbormaster.com) for developing details on this immense undertaking.  Thank you for your cooperation, we will post updated information as it becomes available.

 Thank you,     Dartmouth Waterways Department