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Styrofoam graveyard cleaned up in Lake Lanier cove, thanks to drought
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James Watson, left, assistant manager at Lake Lanier Olympic Park, and Jay Lawson of the Lake Lanier Convention & Visitors Bureau, clean up debris from a dried-up cove off Lake Lanier.
The area’s worsening drought showed one benefit on Thursday: Barren shoreline allowed workers to get rid of a longstanding “Styrofoam graveyard” from a Lake Lanier cove off Clarks Bridge Road. Several groups, including Keep Hall Beautiful, Gainesville/Hall ’96 and Lake Lanier Association, ended up removing tons of Styrofoam debris from the area, which is near the Lake Lanier Olympic Park. “This is a big day for us,” Keep Hall Beautiful director Kelly Norman said.