Lake Union Water Safety Program Report (2024-2025)

Mind The Zone is a public safety and awareness campaign focused on educating Lake Union water users about the seasonal advisory buoys that are installed to provide warning of a seaplane taking off or landing.

This report covers May 2024 through June 2025.

Recreational Boaters’ Survey

What do boaters want? Read the results of a contractor’s survey of Washington boaters–kayakers to cruisers–about their priorities for state investments.

Implementing the Recommendations

The survey recommended that the Recreation and Conservation Funding Board use the data to guide its investments in boating facilities with the goal of ensuring grants go to projects that satisfy boater needs, address provider challenges, and respect the environment.

The report also found that boaters perceive some fragmentation of services and suggests that boating services providers better coordinate and communicate. Taking action, state agencies developed recommendations to improve their coordination of boating programs. Read the Improving Coordination of State Services to Recreational Boaters report.


Other Studies

Activities Supporting Recreational Boating in Washington, Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee report (2010)