The park hosts over 250 tournaments every year. The upgrades only took 6 months to complete, but because the government provided no financing, it took seven years to raise the neccessary funding.
The article includes an interview with Corps Ranger Ryan Hartwig who explains that:
"Instead of accepting cash or money, we decided it would be quicker to accept building material. So, my involvement was to solicit potential sponsors. I went to local bait shops, marinas, boat dealers and anyone I thought would gain exposure from the [park] site. We were able to gain $30,000 in materials, including concrete, a dock, tanks, pumps, landscaping and a large dry-erase leader board from BASS and ESPN Outdoors."
"We supervise 48 facilities on the lake, but Little Hall is located on the Chestatee River and is one of two parks where most of the tournaments are. Probably 50 to 75 of the roughly 270 tournaments we permitted last year were held at Little Hall, so it wasn't hard to determine that it was where we needed to focus our efforts."
Improvements to Little Hall Park include:
- Sheltered pavilion for weigh-ins or special events, aluminum bleachers with seating for up to 150 people and a landscaped hill behind them to accommodate others.
- New concrete walkway around the pavilion.
- Courtesy dock, donated by a local marina, that can accommodate at least 25 boats.
- Three 150-gallon stock tanks for holding fish during weigh-ins.
- A submerged recirculating pump and lines for the tanks located on the dock.
- Landscaping of trees, shrubs and flowers.
Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaster/columns/story?page=b?col?bt?spotlight?0508?fed?corps?upgrade
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