Hi All!

Eddie and I met with the COE today about the dive park idea. I believe they will get behind us if we can show them a good unified front of divers and dive groups that will help and want this to happen.

It was suggested that if we could get support from the county dive teams from Hall, Gwinnett and Forsyth that it would add a lot of weight to the proposal. In addition if we agree to allow Kayakers and Canoers to access the same "No Boats" area that would also help as we could get assistance from places such as the Dam Store in our efforts.

An other additional tie in would be the disabled diver programs such as SUDS.

We also discussed possible locations other than West Bank Park. It was felt that while that might be a good location, during peak useage times that park may shut down and not allow more folks inside. If anyone has some really good ideas fo alternative locations please chime in! Altenatives discussed were Lake Lanier Park (making a No Boats area outside of the swim area that rachs across to the Gwinett park on the the other side of the cove) or maybe Two Mile Creek Park.

If we can set up a confederation of interested parties that then can partnerwith the Corps (for example, on maintaining the items placed underwater) this would also go long way towards geting things moving.

The Corps agreed to check wth other COE projects to see if any of them have dive parks/facilities. We agreed to seek out possible partners for a Lanier Diver Association that would act as the organizing entitiy for the park support.

Mike