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Light program spotlights troubled waters
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Bill Tannahill, of the Lake Lanier Association, shows how a safety light will be mounted on a danger marker that may be used on Lake Lanier.
An effort to put solar-powered lights on navigation markers and buoys on Lake Lanier is moving forward with agreement from the previously resistant U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Gainesville-based Lake Lanier Association was able to sway the corps after much discussion. “This is going to be their baby,” said Tim Rainey, the corps’ operations project manager at Lake Lanier.