Indiana Administrative Code › Title 312 - NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION › Article 5 - BOATING ON PUBLIC WATERS OF INDIANA › Rule 9 - Specified Waters Owned by Public Utilities; Restrictions › Section 9-2 - Geist Reservoir

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC
				  14-15-7-3
Affected: IC 14-15
Sec. 2.
(a) This
				section establishes restrictions on the operation of boats in Geist Reservoir
				in Hamilton County, Marion County, and Hancock County.
(b) A person must not operate a boat at
				greater than idle speed in any of the following locations:
(1) East of a line seven hundred (700) feet
				west and parallel to the Olio Road causeway.
(2) South of the Fall Creek Road bridge and
				causeway to a line one hundred (100) feet south and parallel to the western
				prolongation of the center line of 96th Street.
(3) In an area known as Devil's Elbow and
				more particularly described as east, south, and upstream from a line extended
				shoreline to shoreline beginning at a point described as latitude 39°54'
				42.0021756" north and longitude 85° 58' 12.826398" west; extending east
				northeasterly to a point described as latitude 39° 54' 43.20567" north and
				85° 58' 5.5123356" west; and extending north northeasterly to a point
				described as latitude 39° 54' 47.1218976" north and 85° 58' 2.3784852"
				west.
(4) In an area known as the
				Indianapolis Yacht Club Harbor and located east and southeast of a line within
				the southeast quarter of section 10 and part of the southwest quarter of
				section 11 in township 17 north, range 5 east, being more particularly
				described as beginning at a point which lies one hundred eighty (180) feet
				southeast from the east corner of the southeast abutment of the most westerly
				bridge over the reservoir, which point lies nineteen (19) feet northeast of the
				centerline of the pavement (assumed bearing of north fifty-four (54) degrees,
				ten (10) minutes west) of Fall Creek Road, thence across a bay of the reservoir
				north fifty-three (53) degrees, seventeen (17) minutes east one thousand one
				hundred eighty-six (1,186) feet, to the shoreline of the reservoir.
(5) In an area known as the Indianapolis
				Sailing Club Harbor, within the southeast quarter of section 10, township 17
				north, range 5 east, and being more particularly described as commencing at the
				southeast corner of section 10, thence west along the south line of the section
				a distance of three thousand five hundred (3,500) feet, thence north at right
				angles to the south section line a distance of three hundred eighty (380) feet
				to the point of beginning of the description in this subdivision (assumed
				bearing of north twenty-three (23) degrees, thirty-seven (37) minutes west),
				thence a distance of seven hundred forty-six and four-tenths (746.4) feet to
				the north end of a retaining wall along the shoreline of the reservoir, thence
				following the meanders of the shoreline of the reservoir northeasterly,
				southerly, and southwesterly to the point of beginning.
(6) In an area known as Mast Head Bay, within
				the southeast quarter and part of the northeast quarter of section 9, township
				17 north, range 5 east, and more particularly described as upstream and north
				of Fall Creek Road and east of Geist Road.
(7) In an area known as Cocktail
				Cove.
(8) North of 96th Street and
				west of Olio Road in Fall Creek Township, Hamilton County. The zone is the area
				east of an arc formed commencing at the point where the idle zone described in
				subdivision (4) intersects the east shoreline, then extending northward and
				connecting with the chain of islands and including the embayments east of the
				chain of islands, to a point four thousand (4,000) feet from the point of
				beginning.
(9) In an area known as
				Juice Box Cove and more particularly described as an embayment east and
				southeasterly from a line extended shoreline to shoreline beginning at a point
				described as latitude 39° 56' 38.23" north and longitude 85° 55' 52.39"
				west; and extending southwesterly to a point described as latitude 39° 56'
				37.33" north and longitude 85° 55' 53.61" west.