Recreational boaters could lose access to False Creek during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, security officials say. Recreational boaters could lose access to False Creek during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, security officials say. (Mike Laanela/CBC)

Some local waterways commonly used by recreational boaters will become closed security zones during the 2010 Winter Olympics, security officials have revealed.

Crews will erect a fence underneath Vancouver's Cambie Street Bridge to control boat traffic into the eastern basin of False Creek starting in late January 2010, Sgt. Cameron Miller of the Integrated Security Unit told a public forum on Tuesday evening.

Mariners who normally moor their boats in the area will be allowed through, provided they arrange a security escort, but it is not yet clear if the area will be closed to other recreational boaters, including rowers and dragon boat paddlers who frequently train on the protected waters in the winter.

Millar also announced that controlled access zones and exclusion zones will be implemented at other waterways such as Burrard Inlet, the Fraser River and Howe Sound, but details on the extent of those plans have yet to be released.

With files from The Canadian Press