Several dead striped bass found at Thurmond Dam

Park rangers and a fisheries biologist report that several dead striped bass have been found above and below the J. Strom Thurmond Dam near Augusta, Ga., in the past seven days.

[ In Corps of Engineers ]
E-Mail the Corps with your Address

The nearly 12,000 shoreline permit holders on Hartwell are being asked to voluntarily provide e-mail addresses so they can be receive information and updates about shoreline use permits electronically.

[ In Lake Hartwell ]
Contractor selected for Franklin County boat ramp

In 2007, the county received some $900,000 from the Lake Hartwell PCB settlement and has already spent part of that money to put in the concrete ramp. However, the rest of the project, including parking, has yet to be completed.

[ In Corps of Engineers ]
18 Mile Access Area to close temporarily

The 18 Mile Access Area on Lake Hartwell in Anderson Co., S.C. will close temporarily for repaving starting Monday. The area is expected to reopen in five to seven days, weather permitting.

[ In Corps of Engineers ]
COE areas open for hunting season

Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hartwell Lake Office announced some of its larger recreation areas on Hartwell Lake will open for archery hunters and small game hunting for the 2009-2010 Georgia and South Carolina states hunting season.

[ In Corps of Engineers ]
Don't Risk Loss of Your Dock Permit

Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hartwell Project office instituted a Jan. 1, 2010, deadline for installation of newly permitted docks on the lake that could not be installed during the recent drought.  Permit holders facing this deadline who do not install their docks by Jan. 1, 2010, will lose the boat dock portion of the permit.

[ In Lake Hartwell ]
BOAT TOURS ON LAKE HARTWELL

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[ In Lake Keowee ]
NC man drowns in Lake Keowee

Multiple media outlets reported that 21-year-old Gilberto Presa-Gonsalez, of Cashiers, N.C., drowned near an area known as "The Rock" in Lake Keowee 7/26 after a wave knocked him off of a sandbar and into deeper water.

[ In Lake Hartwell ]
Savannah River Basin could be option for Atlanta

Such a transfer is also feasible from an engineering standpoint, he said. A pumping station at Lake Hartwell, for example, could move water to the Chattahoochee River near Clarksville, which flows all the way into Atlanta.

[ In Lake Hartwell ]
Corps temporarily closing Hartwell Lake sites for repaving

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hartwell Lake Project Office announced the temporary closing of the South Carolina Overlook and Hartwell Dam Viewing Area beginning Monday, July 20

[ In Department of Natural Resources ]
Jocassee Gorges Visitor Center opens

The new Jocassee Gorges Visitor Center officially opened on Tuesday, July 7, at Keowee-Toxaway State Natural Area just off S.C. 11 (Cherokee Foothills National Scenic Highway) on Lake Keowee in Pickens County.

[ In Department of Natural Resources ]
Georgia DNR and Team Georgia Urge Good Judgment Regarding Alcohol and Boating

[ In Corps of Engineers ]
Only 174 more dock permits available on Lanier

Remaining permits to be distributed by lottery

[ In Lake Hartwell ]
Court-Ordered Dam Removal Back on Track

Removal of the flashboards from the lower dam is the initial phase of Schlumberger's work plan for the project that includes removal of that and another dam as well as other river restoration and remediation for natural resource damage due to contamination of PCBs released from the former Sangamo-Weston capacitor manufacturing plant in Pickens between 1955 and 1977.

[ In Corps of Engineers ]
Army Corps of Engineers to waive recreation fees August 1-9, 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C.– The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today it will waive all day use fees from Aug. 1-9, 2009 at its more than 2,400 Corps-operated recreation sites nationwide. This will include Corps-operated sites at Lakes Thurmond and Hartwell in the upper Savannah River Basin.