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Got a nose for trash? Can you find garbage quicker than anyone you know? If so, the Lake Lanier Association (LLA) needs your help as an Advance Scout for Shore Sweep, scheduled for Saturday, September 26, 2015 from 8 AM until 1 PM. You’ll be …
The July 2015 newsletter from our friends at the Lake Lanier Association is now available to download over the Internet. Please click on the link below for your copy. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find: Our annual meeting, held on April 18th, was the …
The Lake Lanier Association (LLA) is a humble sponsor of ShoreSweep, the annual event that organizes volunteers to remove trash from Lake Lanier for proper disposal. This year, in preparation for the 2015 Shore Sweep event, LLA is making the job of finding and discarding trash …
Tonya Bonitatibus from Savannah Riverkeeper sent lakelanier.com the following press release regarding the denial of the application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity requested by Kinder Morgan (KM) that would have allowed KM to use the doctrine of Eminent Domain to build the controversial “Palmetto Pipeline” …
Here’s an unusual family activity: 1,500 painted ladies will be released at Wilshire Trails Park, near Lake Lanier in Gainesville, GA, on Sunday May 17, 2015, at the annual Butterfly Release Party! This free event takes place from 1 PM until about 4 PM. Every …
The Lake Lanier Association held its annual meeting on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at Port Royale and everything went swimmingly. Ken Cook, local meteorologist and lake dweller, spoke to almost 400 people who braved rainy weather forecasts to attend the event. This is the group …
Eight years ago this month, Hall County filed a Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit Application with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the Savannah District proposing the Glades Reservoir project. The original project was for an 850-acre reservoir on Flat Creek that would yield of 6.4 …
According to the latest news from the non-profit group, Savannah Riverkeeper, “The pristine Floridan Aquifer provides coastal Georgia residents and communities with abundant clean water. Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) is the practice of injecting chemically treated wastewater, surface water or groundwater into an aquifer …
On Thursday, December 11, 2014, Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal announced the hiring of additional lawyers to do battle at the Supreme Court with our neighboring states in the latest episode of the Water Wars. He also announced the establishment of an office for interagency coordination …
Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal announced on Friday, November 7, 2014, that the state of Georgia, the Atlanta Regional Commission and Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority filed lawsuits against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for failure to address long-standing water supply requests in the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa …