Waterway & Wetland Permits: Swimming Rafts

Landowners || Contractors || Municipalities || Agriculturalists || Public Involvement || County Contacts

“I want to place a swimming raft or water trampoline in a lake or flowage. Do I need to obtain a permit and/or pay a fee?” By statute, swimming rafts may not interfere with public rights in navigable waters, or interfere with the rights of other property owners. They must be placed within 200 feet of shore, and can only be placed by a waterfront property owner.

Swimming Rafts

DNR Photo

Decision Tool: Do I Need a Permit?

Don't have Flash player? Visit the text version of our Determine Permit Required Decision Tool: Swimming Rafts to learn what you can do to control erosion in your shoreline area.

In addition, here are the current Swimming Rafts permitting and exemption application materials:

Swimming Rafts Application Materials

How do I save and open the permit materials in ZIP format?

• Individual Permit: Swimming Rafts [ZIP 423KB]

Swimming Rafts Exemption Materials

Exemption Checklist: Swimming Raft

Please send your completed application materials to the permit intake address based on the county where your project is located on our Permit Intake & Contacts page.

Laws

Applicable statutes and codes include Section 30.12(1)(g), 30.13 (1)(m), and 30.61(6)(a), Wis. Stats. [exit DNR], [PDF 627KB] and Chapter NR 326, Wis. Adm. Code [exit DNR], [PDF 29KB].

Last Revised: Thursday October 22 2009