Private interests overshadow stakeholders for new DNR dock rules

Private interests overshadow stakeholders for new DNR dock rules

While a 12-member stakeholder group worked for months to craft new rules for private recreational docks in Coastal Georgia, draft regulations allowing docks up to 1,500 feet long are being shaped by behind-the-scenes lobbying from a former EPD commissioner and consultants. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.