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Allatoona Lake’s volunteers go beyond the call; cleanup set for Sept. 18
By Chris Purvis, Park Ranger

The Allatoona Lake Project offers a wide variety of available volunteer activities. A few examples of volunteer activities in the past year include blue bird box maintenance, trail construction and maintenance, fish habitat restoration, shoreline cleanups, park hosting, BSA Eagle Scout projects and many others.

Of course, the biggest volunteer event on the lake and perhaps in the nation is the Great Allatoona Lake Cleanup. This event, held every year in September, usually is in the top three Public Lands Day events in the United States. Last year, 4,036 volunteers came out for the event with more than 1,000 staying for the post cleanup picnic held at Riverside Day Use Area. The “GLAC” is managed by the Lake Allatoona Preservation Authority and partners with the Corps on this worthy environmental cleanup. The 2010 “Great Lake Allatoona Cleanup” is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 18. For more information or to sign up for the event, please visit the LAPA website at www.allatoona.org.

Here’s another volunteer opportunity – Etowah River Cleanup: The Keep Bartow Beautiful Rivers Alive Cleanup is set for October 18 at Riverside Day Area. For more information contact Keep Bartow Beautiful staff at www.bartowga.org/kbb.  

A number of volunteers consistently and selflessly give of their time. Mrs. Geri Hillegass has volunteered her time the past three years helping to educate and protect the public through water safety initiatives. Volunteers Melanie Thrasher and Elizabeth Sanders have been instrumental in helping to open the new section of trails in Coopers Furnace Day Use Area. Photographers John Johnson and Brad Keshlear have donated countless hours and photos to help in the renovation of the Visitor Center at the Operations Project Management Office. In all, volunteers contributed 56,042 hours this past year to help make this lake the best in Georgia.

If you would like to volunteer your services for any projects on Allatoona Lake, please contact the volunteer coordinator at 678-721-6700 or go through the volunteer web page at http://allatoona.sam.usace.army.mil/.

This column is provided by the US Army Corps of Engineers at the Allatoona Lake project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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