Lake Lanier Islands Getting Stones To Prevent Erosion

CUMMING, GA — Four islands in Lake Lanier are getting help aimed at preserving their eroding shorelines.

The Lake Lanier Association, along with Hall and Gwinnett counties, private businesses and the Army Corps of Engineers, are placing heavy stones — called riprap — along the shores of the islands, the Gainesville Times reports.

Waves and boat wakes have worked away at the shores of the islands since Lake Lanier was built in the 1950s.

A total of about 6,500 tons of stone will be used to line 3,150 feet of shore line on Browns Bridge, Aqualand, Six Mile and Van Pugh islands — spanning the Hall and Forsyth county lines, the paper reported.

Workers were removing debris from Van Pugh's shore line on Monday, preparing to lay the stone.

The roughly $275,000 needed for the stone will come from Hall County's special-purpose, local option sales tax, Gwinnett County and the Chantal and Tommy Bagwell Family Foundation, according to the Times.

To read the original report in the Gainesville Times, click here.

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