The Edmonton Yacht Club License of Occupation Overview


This page of the EYC website provides public access to documents the Edmonton Yacht Club has prepared to amend a License of Occupation (LOC). Part of the revised regulatory process involves obtaining a letter of consent from the "upland land owner", the Summer Village of Seba Beach (SVSB) who owns the land between the lake and the lots owned by the EYC. Then approval from Transport Canada, Navigable Waters regarding the navigational propriety of the plan and Alberta Sustainable Development for an amendment to our existing LOC is required before EYC can place what is referred to as a "works" in and on Lake Wabamum to allow us to dock and moor for our member's boats. EYC has over 60 years of continuous service to the community with our activities at Seba Beach. Your support is requested for this proposal so that we may continue this recreational legacy.

After reviewing these documents we invite you to complete an e-mail based survey form. You will find a link to the form near the bottom of this page. We look forward to receiving support / constructive comments from the local as well as general population. Note that the images provided below are links to .pdf files which you may enlarge for more detail with your pdf viewer. If you do not have a pdf reader, one may be downloaded from Adobe by clicking the icon.

Our Commodore has written as a cover letter for a direct mail-out that includes these documents being sent to many in the Seba Beach region.

This "plan view" of the mooring field and dock layout with an indication of the alterations from last year's configuration is probably the most informative document related to our proposal. This diagram has been modified for our final submission to the Summer Village of Seba Beach after our public forum held 6 March to widen the navigational channel to 30M. A revised drawing will be placed on the website in the near future.

One of the major factors that the club had to address was the needs of keel boats drawing 3 to 6 feet of draft under their water-line during wind storms and wave action. This profile of the lake bottom in front of the club provides the rationale behind the design to accomodate these keel boats. The profile provides a detailed look at those constraints which required all aspects of the works to be further into the lake than would have been required had the depth of the water increased more rapidly close to shore.

Over time after this plans approval, all of the clubs moorings will be moved and new equipment installed in a much tighter mooring field. The club members will incur significant expense implementing these changes. Details of the new mooring equipment and a layout of the proposed mooring field complete with the swing circles described by member boats responding to shifts in the wind direction is depicted in this drawing .

After you have reviewed these documents, please give us your feedback and comments by submitting our e-mail form