The Fourth of July weekend in Northeast Georgia proved to be filled with arrests, crashes and injuries on area waterways.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources issued its final report on incidents and arrests across state waterways for the holiday weekend Monday morning. The Gainesville area alone saw dozens of arrests and injuries.
Eighteen total injuries were reported, with the majority of those coming from two boat explosions on the Fourth of July, one on Lake Lanier at Lake Lanier Islands and the other on Lake Nottely in Union County. Another injury was reported Friday when an 18-year-old man was struck by lightning while riding a personal watercraft on Lake Blue Ridge in Fannin County…