UPDATE: If you were unable to attend the Corps’ Scoping Meeting in Gainesville on October 29, you may submit your comments on the Water Control Manual Update and Environmental Impact Statement / Chattahoochee – Flint River Basin on the Corps’ Web site until November 21, 2008. Please follow the link or send a letter to their address. www.acf-wcm.com. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District....

Dear List Members, Your association has been very busy over the last few weeks meeting with Corps’ officials to discuss lake levels. Meetings with the Corps As you may have read, a delegation of Georgia legislators met on July 9 in DC with the Undersecretary of the Army who oversees the Corps of Engineers and discussed Lake Lanier lake levels and management.  The Lake Lanier Association prepared and...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, will hold five public scoping meetings during October as part of its review and update of the Water Control Manual for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin. The public is invited to attend the scoping meetings which will provide information on the Manual update process.  Attendees will have the opportunity to give their feedback on the issues...

Dear List Members, Please write to the Corps in support of the Georgia EPD’s request to hold more water in Lake Lanier. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division has sent a letter to the Mobile office of the Corps of Engineers requesting the Corps reduce the minimum amount of flow in the Chattahoochee River at Peachtree Creek in Atlanta by 13% between November 1, 2008 and April 30, 2009.  This will...

Dear List Members, Shore Sweep A reminder that the 20th Annual Shore Sweep is this Saturday, September 27.  We are looking for two more site volunteers for the south end of the lake.  If you are interested in helping, please call the office as soon as possible at 770-503-7757.  All the information on the various sites and the dropoff locations for large items are on our Web site The Lake Lanier Association...

Dear List Members: The Lake Lanier Association will hold its twentieth Annual Shore Sweep on September 27, 2008 at thirteen locations around the Lake Lanier : Aqualand Marina · Bald Ridge Marina Beaver Ruin Rd, Cumming (between 4 YD and 5 YD) Old 53 road bed (north of Lanier Bridge, east side) Clarks Bridge Park · Gainesville Marina Habersham Marina  · Holiday Marina Lake Lanier Islands · Lanier Harbor...