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How you can help clean up Lake Lanier at Shore Sweep 2019

David Chamblin unloads his barge that he filled with trash at the Longwood Park docks during the annual Shore Sweep on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, on Lake Lanier. - photo by Kaylee Martin

09162018 SHORE SWEEP 4 — David Chamblin unloads his barge that he filled with trash at the Longwood Park docks during the annual Shore Sweep on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, on Lake Lanier. - photo by Kaylee Martin

Volunteers will be descending upon Lake Lanier on Saturday for the Lake Lanier Association’s 31st annual Shore Sweep. Twelve sites across the lake will host more than 1,000 volunteers on Sept. 14, where they will be roaming the banks and waters of Lake Lanier to hunt and remove trash.