22nd Annual Lake Lanier Shore Sweep to be held Saturday, September 25, 2010. More details to follow.

All the Shore Sweep dumpsters are finally picked up, and we are pleased to announce that the 500-600 volunteers who braved the rain on Saturday, September 19, collected 28 tons of trash from Lake Lanier. Volunteers in Dawson County collected 9 tons of trash, and they began their efforts of locating and transporting the debris and foam two weeks before Shore Sweep. Capt Rick Marton and his crew, along with Marine...

Weights for the Individual Locations (in Tons) for the 2009 Lake Lanier Shore Sweep 1.49 – Aqualand 0.77 – Bald Ridge 0.54 – Clarks Bridge 9.00 – Young Deer 2.35 – Gainesville 3.75 – Old 53 road bed 9.00 – Dawson Co. 1.2 – Miscellaneous marinas and Lake Lanier Islands

The event will take place from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., and volunteers may pick up bags to collect trash from the shoreline at one of the designated sites on the lake, as listed below.   In return for a full bag of trash, the volunteers will receive a 2009 Shore Sweep T-shirt, and an invitation to the Shore Sweep volunteer appreciation party which will take place from 1 pm until 3 pm at Van Pugh Park North in...

Mark your calendar for the Lake Lanier Association’s 21st Annual Shore Sweep on Saturday, September 19 beginning at 8 a.m. Participating sites at marinas and parks are on the attached Lake Lanier Shore Sweep flyer.  Volunteers can go to those parks between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on September 19 to pick up trash bags from the site volunteers. Volunteers do not need to register their participation in Shore Sweep...

The Lake Lanier Association invites children 12 and under to enter an original drawing in its third Shore Sweep T-shirt design contest. The Shore Sweep committee is looking for an original design which, if selected, will appear on hundreds of t-shirts awarded to the volunteers at Shore Sweep on September 19, 2009. All entries must : Be an original work in color and show some aspect of Lake Lanier, above or...

Lake Lanier Association’s Shore Sweep Safety Precautions Safety Procedures and Guidelines for Lake Lanier’s Shore Sweep Event. Please make sure that all volunteers, especially children, follow proper procedures. All children and non-swimmers should wear personal flotation devices if working on or near the water and should never work alone: All children and non-swimmers should wear personal flotation...

Lake Lanier Association’s Shore Sweep The 20th Annual Shore Sweep was held September 27, 2008. Approximately 1,300 volunteers participated in the association’s 20th Annual Shore Sweep on September 27, gathering a total of 22 tons of trash from our shore. In Dawson County, 150 volunteers worked three days and removed all the Styrofoam and trash, totaling 8 tons, from the shoreline in parts of Northern...

Lake Lanier Association’s Shore Super Sweep – Keep on Sweeping! All dumpsters on Corps parks and at Gainesville Marina were removed by April 15. This has marked the end of the Shore Super Sweep for right now. Thanks to all the efforts of so many volunteers, at least 30 tons of trash have been removed from the shoreline to date. If any lake residents would like to organize a creek or cove clean up...

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