The Lake Lanier Association announces cleanups of four locations on Lake Lanier on Saturday, April 12, 2008 as part of its Shore Super Sweep program, an ongoing volunteer program to clean up trash on the shoreline of Lake Lanier exposed due to the low water levels.

The targeted areas are Flat Creek, Holiday Road/Lake Lanier Islands,Yellow Creek in Murrayville and Nix Bridge in Dawsonville.  Details on times and directions are posted on the association's Web site, www.lakelanier.org <http://www.lakelanier.org/> . In cooperation with the Buford office of the US Army Corps of Engineers, a dumpster is available at Van Pugh Park South, Flowery Branch.  Dumpsters will be on site for the Yellow Creek and Holiday Road/Lake Lanier Islands cleanups and a dumpster will be available at Gainesville Marina (public boat ramp). Tires may not be placed in dumpsters and must be taken to Van Pugh South Park and placed next to that dumpster for special handling.

These cleanups mark the end of the Shore Super Sweep effort which has been in place since December 2007.  All dumpsters will be removed by April 15.  "To date both individual volunteers and groups have collected at least 30 tons of trash," said Vicki Barnhorst, executive director of the Lake Lanier Association.  "We appreciate everyone's support in cleaning up the shoreline and hope they will mark their calendars for September 27, 2008 when we will celebrate the association's 20th annual Shore Sweep. 

The Lake Lanier Association is a non-profit organization whose volunteers have                                 
organized Shore Super Sweep.  For more information, please call the association at

770-503-7757 or visit their Web site at www.lakelanier.org