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Erosion, public facilities and lack of local control lead Lake Lanier worries
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Tim Rainey, an operations project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at right, talks about Army Corps practices during a public hearing about Lake Lanier on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. The Army Corps is revising its master plan for regulating the lake for the first time in 31 years. - photo by Nick Bowman
Erosion, navigation markers, restaurants and unwieldy federal decision-making are high on the list of public concerns about the future of life on Lake Lanier. On Thursday, Hall County residents had the chance to get an update and weigh in on the update to the Lake Lanier master plan, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ guiding document for managing the lake.