Need
Help With Your Lake? Here's where to start:
Learn
to assess the state of
your lake.
Click
here to learn about how citizens can assess and monitor their own
lakes through
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Find
a professional
lake specialist.
Click
here to check out
businesses that are members of Georgia Lakes Society. The
Aquaculture Unit of the University of Georgia and the Habersham
County Extension Office also maintain list of "pond consultants".
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Organize
with others who share your interests.
The Alliance of Lake
Homeowners is a non-profit organization
formed to unite
Georgia's lake
community associations and to provide lake community
associations with tools and training. Also, if you are not
already a member, join GLS today!
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Ask
an expert.
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In the mean time, you might try our message board at http://mail.georgialakes.org/.
When you get the login page, hit the guest link. The E-mailbox
name is "gls". Your
username is
"guest" and the password is "password". Ignore the big Access Denied message. Click
on the discussion board link on the left sidebar.
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Investigate
further.
There is wide world of lake-related resources on the web. These links will
help you get
started.
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GLS
news
and events:
- NALMS 19th Annual
Southeastern Lakes Management Conference: Managing Extremes:
Watersheds & Climate Disruption. May 5-7, 2010 in Winston-Salem,
NC.
- Conference Objectives
- To
manage extreme weather conditions: water stewardship
- To
explore ways to restore, enhance & preserve while supporting
economic growth
- To
exchange ideas on current lake, reservoir and watershed issues in the
Southeast
- To
promote local actions on lake, river & watershed issues
- To
facilitate communication among all stakeholders
For
more information, click here
- Georgia Lakes
Society Open Society Meeting A
special opportunity for Strategizing, Dreaming, Imagining, and
Commenting on the Future of GLS. The GLS Open Meeting was held on
May 9, 2009 and included a vote on a change in the by-laws as noted
below. At the
last business meeting, by-law amendments were proposed and passed by
the membership present. The purpose of one of the changes was to
have a financial audit done when a new treasurer took office or at any
point that the board called for an audit. (Article IV, Section G) The word annual was not struck from
Section G so the current wording still calls for an annual audit.
The proposed change is as follows:
From
SECTION
G. The Board of Directors shall be responsible for arranging an
independent annual audit of the financial records of the Society with
each change of Treasurer or as requested by the Board.
To
SECTION
G. The Board of Directors shall be responsible for arranging an
independent audit of the financial records of the Society with each
change of Treasurer or as requested by the Board.
- Minutes from
the GLS Board of Directors
Meetings
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- GLS
has now formed the Alliance of Lake
Homeowners (ALH), newly
established to unite Georgia's lake community associations.
Check
out the Alliance's
website! The
Alliance of Lake Homeowners met on
Saturday, January 10 at the Water's Edge Community Club
House to discuss challenges and
solutions to lakes that are privately owned (event pictures: 1, 2),
and on February 20 following the GLS session of the Georgia
River Network Conference in Athens, GA.
- The
Legislative Monitor: For
news on legislative issues in Georgia concerning water and the
environment, visit our Members
Only Page to download current and past issues of The
Legislative Monitor.
- Lake-Related Conferences:
- Take part in the Great
North American Secchi Dip-In. The
Secchi Dip-In is a demonstration of the potential of volunteer monitors
to gather environmentally important information on our lakes, rivers
and estuaries. The concept of the
Dip-In is simple: individuals in volunteer monitoring programs take a
transparency measurement on one day during the weeks surrounding Canada
Day and July Fourth. These transparency values are
used to
assess the transparency of volunteer-monitored lakes in the United
States and Canada.
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About the
Georgia Lakes Society
(formerly
the "Georgia Lake Management Society" ):
Georgia
lakes, ponds,
and wetlands are in trouble. Many of these lakes and ponds have
problems
with excessive weed and algae growth, turbid water, or heavy
sedimentation.
Some have problems with bacterial or toxic contamination. Wetlands that
protect lakes are being destroyed. Solutions for these problems are not
readily available. Lake management efforts by lake associations,
homeowners,
and concerned citizens have been hampered by lack of hands-on
experience.
In the past, there has been no statewide forum for the exchange of
information
on lake management strategies. To address these needs, representatives
of lake associations, state and local governments, professionals,
academics,
conservation agencies, and interested citizens have banded together to
form the Georgia Lakes Society (GLS).
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