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September 30, 2012

Five boat docks to be installed at Duncan lakes

Derrick Miller The Duncan Banner

DUNCAN — The City of Duncan is installing five boat docks, strategically placing each near the lake concession stands.

Scott Vaughn, Public Works director, said the boat dock project is being paid in part by an Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation grant. Duncan, Fuqua and Humphreys lakes will each have one dock, while Clear Creek Lake will have two docks.

The grant covers more than $164,000 to place the five docks at the lakes. The city is paying $80,000 for site work at each of the lakes to prepare for the docks.

“They are all replacing old boat docks, except for the second one at Clear Creek, which is next to a ramp than hasn’t had a boat dock.”

The project required the city to commit to some work, including adding ADA accessible parking space at each dock.

Once site work is completed at each site, which Vaughn said is the case, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has to review the site work to make sure it is done to completion. Once verified, the docks will be ordered. So far, three docks have been ordered and site work has been completed at the two remaining lakes.

Vaughn said it will take 90 days after the docks have been ordered for them to arrive.

The first three docks were ordered in August and probably won’t arrive until November.

The other two docks probably won’t arrive until December or January.

“It’s coming,” Vaughn said. “It’s in writing.”

The boat dock project is part of the 2010 Lakes Master Plan and has been budgeted as a Capital Improvement project.

It is with the Capital Improvement Funds the City of Duncan will pay for the $80,000 worth of site work.

“We’re achieving elements of our Master Plan,” he said. “Luckily, we were able to get a grant from the state to help us do so.”

Although the addition of the docks has only been on the Lakes Master Plan since 2010, Vaughn said the Duncan Lakes Authority members have been wanting to replace the docks for years.

“Those docks were probably built in the ’70s,” Vaughn said. “It’s long past needing something do to them.”

The next step is to get the site work reviewed at Duncan and Humphreys to get the next docks ordered.

“It’s definitely a good thing,” Vaughn said.

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