Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 22 - MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES
Part 23 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE COASTAL WETLANDS PROTECTION LAW AND THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PROGRAM
Chapter 08 - Requirements for Conducting Regulated Activities
Section 22-23-08-102
Current through March 14, 2024
Marinas, Boat Basins, and Boat Slips:
102.01 Must be located in areas that will have minimal adverse impact on wetlands, water quality, wildlife and marine resources, or sensitive coastal wetlands, and where minimal initial and maintenance dredging will be required.
102.02 Designs must not disrupt currents or restrict tidal flow.
102.03 Marinas must be located at least one thousand (1,000) feet from shellfish harvesting areas and at least seventy-five (75) feet from areas containing submerged or regularly flooded emergent vegetation.
102.04 More efficient utilization of existing marina space is preferable to new marina construction. Innovative solutions to increased demands for additional boat mooring and storage space, including dry stack storage or alternative slip mooring configurations, are encouraged and must be addressed in the environmental assessment required by Chapter 04, 100.03.09.
102.05 Must be designed to avoid sumps and other conditions which would result in long-term degradation of water quality. Depths of marina basins, boat basins, and boat slips must be no deeper than the controlling depth of the parent body of water (navigational depth of adjacent waterway) and must become gradually shallower proceeding from the parent body of water to the nearshore area.
102.06 Must not be sited in areas of known high siltation and high shoaling rates or be located in areas of poor water circulation.
102.07 Proposals must include a long term dredged material disposal plan which provides for suitable upland disposal sites of sufficient size to accommodate disposal of dredged material from initial and future maintenance dredging.
102.08 Boat slips must be designed to have angled sides of one hundred and twenty-five (125) degrees or greater in order to provide for proper flushing and tidal exchange. Existing keyhole boat slips that are being modified must be modified in such a manner that allows for increased tidal flushing of waters.
102.09 Must provide for water circulation and be designed to accommodate tidal flushing by incorporating flow through breakwaters or similar structures. Marinas excavated from uplands or that are otherwise enclosed must have two (2) or more unrestricted openings for tidal movement.
102.10 The marina developer or agent must provide the Department a completed "Coastal Marina Screening Checklist" prior to filing a permit application with the Department or as an attachment to the application.
102.11 Marinas other than for expansion of existing municipal marinas or the construction of new public marinas by city, county, state or federal entities must not be located on or waterward of public beaches.
102.12 Marina proposals require surveys for submerged aquatic vegetation and shellfish within the area proposed for marina development.
102.13 Project proposals must include facilities for the proper handling of petroleum products, sewage, litter, waste, and other refuse. Marinas must have facilities for the collection and disposal of wastewater generated on site and must provide pump-out facilities for the collection and disposal of wastewater from on board holding tanks. Connections from marina disposal systems to existing sewage collection systems are preferable to collection of waste in a holding tank, and holding tanks are preferable to on-site collection and treatment of wastewater. If a holding tank collection system is utilized, proof of a contract with a pump-out service must be provided. Waste disposal and collection systems must be approved by appropriate state agencies, must have adequate signage directing vessels to the pumpout facility, and must describe the method of operation for the pumpout system.
102.14 Marinas are prohibited from conducting or allowing any activity that would negatively impact the current classification of adjacent shellfish growing waters as classified by the Department in accordance with Title 22, Part 1.
102.15 See also Requirements for Bulkheads and Seawalls (Chapter 08, 103), Channels and Access Canals (Chapter 08, 106), Dredged Material Disposal (Chapter 08, 107), Filling Other Than Dredged Material Disposal (Chapter 08, 114), and Dredging and Excavation (Chapter 08, 117).
