The water level on Lake Lanier continues to rise, thanks to several days of steady rain, and now a public walkway and a boat ramp are closed. The Gainesville Parks and Recreation Department has closed the Longstreet Park lake walk and the Holly Park boat ramp until further notice. The Corps of Engineers has closed twenty of its facilities on the lake.
"We come out by water and physically move docks in or out,” Kyle Davis said.
Davis works for Marine Specialties, a company that moves floating docks. He said in recent years, recurring drought conditions caused the need to have docks towed out farther into the water. But now, there’s a lot of dangerous debris in the lake and high water is to blame.
"In 30 years, I can count on one hand as many times as I've seen the lake this high,” Davis said.