PDF: TWRA report for Jun 26, 2009 boating accident PDF: TWRA report for June 19, 2010 boating accident
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officers are stepping up holiday boating patrols this weekend to avoid fireworks of a different kind.
Compounding an expected Independence Day boating spike, officers will try to prevent what happened two weekends ago, when three drowning incidents resulted in four Hamilton County deaths.
The agency jumped ahead last weekend with Operation Dry Water, saturating heavy traffic areas on major state waterways. During the operation, TWRA recorded 27 boating under the influence — BUI — arrests across Tennessee, along with 127 citations for not wearing life jackets and other safety violations.
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