“Protecting our shoreline provides stabilization, which decreases erosion, thus protecting water quality by keeping sediment out of the lake,” LLA said in a newsletter.
“The riprap also assists in dissipating wave energy heading back in the opposite direction towards the lake. If you like to fish, riprap areas are not bad places to search for fish either. We only have so much shoreline and we need to protect it.”
With some 12 million visitors per year, Lake Lanier sees “a lot of wave action,” the organization said.
Strengthening the shoreline “also impacts the volume of water in the lake,” said Skip Short, an LLA board member overseeing the project, told The Times. “People don’t realize that all the sediment that comes off the banks ends up in the lake, which decreases the water volume, which decreases the amount of available drinking water.”
