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DEFINITIONS Page 1 of 6 Attachment A Revised Indian River County Interim Manatee Protection Speed Zone Plan "Day marker" means the official U.S. Coast Guard maintained navigation channel markers as designated on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration navigational charts or accurate repro- ductions thereof. "Day markers" shall include any buoy used by the Coast Guard as a replacement for a damaged day marker. "Slow speed" is approximately seven (7) m.p.h.; a water vessel that is not operating on a plane and which has settled into the water and is proceeding without wake or with minimum wake is proceeding at slow speed. "Water vessel" means every description of boat, watercraft, barge, and airboat used or capable of being used as a means of transpor- tation on water, including personal watercraft. DESCRIPTION OF SPEED ZONE REGULATION AREAS All speed zones and non -restricted areas shall be in effect year-round. Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) The ICW marked channel is exempt from speed regulation throughout Indian River County, as is a 100 foot buffer extending shoreward from each side of the marked channel, to aid in navigation of the channel. St. Sebastian River. That portion of the St. Sebastian River within Indian River County west of US Highway #1 is declared a slow speed zone, with the exception of a 20 m.p.h. travel corridor to be established between the US Highway #1 Bridge and the F.E.C. railroad tracks. An exception to the referenced 20 m.p.h. travel corridor shall be a slow speed zone extending 500 feet east and 500 feet west of (and under) the US Highway #1 Bridge at the mouth of the St. Sebastian River (as indicated on the map). That portion of the St. Sebastian River within Brevard County (including C-54 canal) shall be subject to the restrictions of Brevard County and the State of Florida. Indian River Lagoon/Western Shoreline, North of the Wabasso Causeway From the Indian River/Brevard County line and from the western shoreline out to the marked channel of the ICW (with 100' buffer) south to day marker "65" is slow speed, except for a 20 m.p.h. travel corridor extending from the St. Sebastian River US #1 Bridge east to the TCW channel. From day marker "65" to day marker "73" a 600 foot slow speed shoreline buffer extends waterward from the western shoreline. At day marker "73" the slow speed zone widens out to the marked channel of the ICW (with 100' buffer) extending south to day marker "7611. A 600 foot slow speed shoreline buffer extends from day marker "76" to the Wabasso Causeway.