Missing rowing club wheelchair-accessible docks found

Two docks built for people with disabilities have been recovered after they went missing from the Ottawa Rowing Clublast month.

A Gatineau man called police on June 7,the same day CBC News broke the story about the missing docks, to say he'd found them floating on the river and had recovered them.

The specially designed docks are worth $15,000 and went missing on May 17, less than a month after they were first installed.

The caller apparently gave police an address and said he'd call back in a week, but nothing was found at the address and the man didn't call back within a week.

Nearly two weeks later on June 19, the man called police again with a different addresshis mother's houseon the Quebec side of the Ottawa river near the Cumberland ferry.

Gatineau police not laying charges

Police from Gatineau and Ottawa responded and found the docks stacked up on the mother's front lawn.

Gatineau police say they're not laying charges and are simply glad that the docks have been returned.

The club bought the docks with funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to attract more athletes with physical and visual disabilities to the water.

Rowing club members had been searching the Ottawa River with help from fishermen and the Rockcliffe Flying Club.

The manufacturer of the docks disassembled them Tuesday and will reassemble them at the Ottawa Rowing Club, said club president Lana Burpee.

The manufacturer told CBC News the docks had obvious signs of damage.