Lake Lanier
| March 1, 1950 |
Herman Talmadge, Walter George, Richard B. Russell and William Hartsfield break ground on the Corps of Engineers project, Lake Lanier
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Lake Lanier |
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| February 1, 1956 |
The gates on Lake Lanier's dam, near Gainesville, Georgia, close, beginning the containment of the most popular Corps of Engineers lake in the Southeast. |
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Lake Lanier |
| October 9, 1957 |
Dedication of the completed Lake Lanier dam. |
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Lake Lanier |
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Sidney Lanier |
| May 25, 1959 |
Lake Lanier reaches its normal height (1,070 feet above sea level) for the first time. |
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Lake Lanier |
| December 8, 2004 |
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was forced to detonate a pipe bomb found in rocks by a fisherman in the vicinity of the Buford Dam powerhouse at Lake Lanier. Police closed off access to the dam during the operation. |
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Lake Lanier |
| February 5, 2008 |
A Washington D. C. court of appeals hands Georgia a major loss in its water wars with Florida and Alabama. The three-judge panel held that Georgia did not have a right to increase its draw of water from Lake Lanier |
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Lake Lanier |
Long a dream of Atlanta mayor William Hartsfield, the creation of Lake Lanier would serve to provide power and water for the rapidly growing city. Richard B. Russell, on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee was an easy convert to the project, as was Walter George. With the election of Herman Talmadge in 1947 the project seemed instoppable.
The first land purchased was Shadburn's Ferry. all the farmland and riverfront property in the Chattahoochee River Valley south of Belton, Georgia below 1072 feet, along with a substantial additional perimeter, were acquired by the state. Those who would not sell had their property condemned, then given fair market value.
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