Sylvan Lake group wants noisy boaters to quiet down

A community group in Sylvan Lake is launching an awareness campaign to get noisy boaters to quiet down.

Residents say it's a decades-old discussion, as large speed boats and wakeboard boats with modified mufflers and booming stereo systems often irritate other lake users.

"There's sailorsand fishermen andpaddleboardersandcanoers andkayakers," saidKent Lyle of theQuiet Enjoyment Initiative.

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"They can all have fun," he added. "What we like to say is less noise, more fun."

Lyle saidother municipalities have restricted motorized boats on their lakes, but his group isn't proposing anything that drastic.

They're hoping education will help curb the problem of noisy boats, which he said can be as loud as some motorcycles.

"If they don't have any mufflers,they just are earsplitting," he said.

"And there's no need for it."

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