RedactedNarrative: On September 15, 2019, I, Game Warden, (GA DNR LED) received information from Sgt. telling me he had responded to a possible boating incident on Lake Nottely, near Nottely Marina in Blairsville, GA on August 4, 2019 and the owner/operator of the vessel was requesting a boating incident report be completed now.  
  
  I was contacted by Operator1 and he told me on August 4, 2019, around 2100 hours, Operator1 and some of his friends were riding in his pontoon boat on Lake Nottely.  Operator1 was towing two young people in a tube.  One of the occupants in the boat asked Operator1 if he could hand them a water bottle.  While doing so, Operator1 was not paying attention to where he was going.  This inattention caused him to run the pontoon boat into the bank.  No one was injured and no one required any medical attention. 
  
  When Operator1 started to get his vessel repaired, he found out the estimated damage to the pontoon boat was in excess of $2000 so he requested a DNR Boating Incident Report.  *** On August 5, 2019 at approximately 2118 hours, I, Sgt. with the Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division responded to a call from GSP Gainesville about a boating incident on Lake Nottely where a pontoon boat ran aground. I spoke to the operator, Operator1, by phone and he said everyone on board is accounted for and he only had some minor injuries. 
  
  Operator1 told me he was traveling back towards the marina in a narrow part of the lake, looked away and struck the bank which ran the vessel into the shore. Operator1 was thrown to the floor of the vessel and sustained minor cuts and an injury to his knee.  The five passengers did not report any injuries. The operator said he was not going to seek any further medical treatment for his injuries at this time and the damage to the vessel did not appear to be over $2,000.00 so he did not need to do a boating incident report. I did not detect any alcohol or other impairment from the group. I gave Operator1 my business card to give me a call if he decided to seek further medical treatment for his injuries or if he found the damage was over the reportable amount of $2,000.00.
  
  On September 3, 2019 I received a telephone call from Operator1 stating that he found out the damage to the vessel was going to be over $2,000.00 and he wanted to get a boating incident report completed. I asked Operator1 to email me the information from the vessel and occupants so we could complete the boating incident report. I received emails from Operator1 with the information that I requested on September 10, 2019. 
  
  I assigned GW2 the task of completing the boating incident report and forwarded the emails to him on September 15, 2019.
  