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Corps plans return to first-come, first-served system for dock permits
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The Army Corps of Engineers has finished reviewing dock permit applications filed as part of a lottery to hand out remaining dock permits. But there’s a handful left, so the corps plans to revert to first-come, first-served around Labor Day.
A five-year lottery system didn’t complete the task, so the Army Corps of Engineers plans to revert to first-come, first-served in issuing the remaining boat dock permits on Lake Lanier. The corps began the lottery in 2009 with 187 available permits and ended up approving 121 permit “equivalents” out of 281 requests, with a permit either serving as a single dock or two slips in a community dock, Chief Ranger Ernest Noe said. Nearly 200 requests overall were rejected.