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Sunken steel-hulled houseboat pulled from Lanier with heavy equipment, 2 barges
Forty-foot vessel recovered with abandoned dock near Flat Creek
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A 40-foot houseboat is inspected Tuesday morning after being pulled from Lake Lanier near Lakeview Lane. Park Ranger Kevin Goss, center, looks for an identification number with the Lake Lanier Association's John Barker, left, and Rich York
The last steel-hulled, sunken houseboat was scraped from the shore of Lake Lanier on Tuesday. Law enforcement, lake managers, the Lake Lanier Association and Marine Specialties Inc. hauled the hull of the 40-foot, destroyed vessel — stuffed full of debris, mud and catfish — from the shore near the 4000 block of Lakeview Lane in Gainesville onto a barge for disposal. The work lasted most of the morning and will likely cost taxpayers almost $10,000 through the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Hall County government, which funded the work with grants to the lake association.