The Labor Day holiday weekend ended at midnight Monday and Lake Lanier ended the three days with 13 BUI arrests. That’s out of 19 statewide, according to the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Four of the remaining six occurred on middle Georgia waterways.
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The number of boating under the influence (BUI) arrests made on Lake Lanier more than doubled in the 24 hours ending at mid-morning Monday, according to the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
Spokesman Mark McKinnon said that so far this holiday weekend, since midnight Friday, there have been ten BUI arrests on Lanier out of a total of 13 statewide.
But McKinnon says there had been only one boating accident reported. It happened in middle Georgia.
“At approximately 5:30 p.m. on August 31st, game wardens responded to a boating incident on Lake Blackshear in Sumter County,” he said. “The incident occurred when the operator of an older-style standup jet ski fell off the jet ski and the self-circling device malfunctioned. The ski continued for approximately 125 yards, before striking a downed skier from a wakeboard boat. The skier that was struck by the unoccupied jet ski only suffered minor abrasions to his right arm.”