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Name:	Meema -	Reply
Subject:	Can someone 'splain this to me
Date:	9/19/2009 9:22:16 AM

We have lived on Lake Lanier for 15 years. The ups and downs used to be trackable in 4 year cycles until the last 7 years or so. I know there are multiple factors impacting the levels, including changes in management, drought, usage, water wars, etc. But the one thing I cannot understand is this: traveling south to Florida over the last few years it seems the tributaries are always bank full even when Lanier is dropping to record low levels and the Atlanta area is on full outdoor water ban.

Several years ago I started monitoring the lake level site at http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/html/rrm.php paying particular attention to the level of West Point, which I think is the first largest pool receiving water from Lanier. Right now, today, West Point is above full pool, even as Lanier seems to be struggling to maintain the tiny increase from all this rain we have had.

I don't get it.

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	Can someone 'splain this to me
Date:	9/19/2009 3:05:24 PM

I don't either and would also like an explanation just as I would like to know how all those oysters in Apalachicola Bay survived droughts before 1957 and how everyone expects the 8% of the water that enters the basin above Buford Dam is to keep the other 92% fat and happy!

Name:	roswellric -	Reply
Subject:	Can someone 'splain this to me
Date:	9/21/2009 4:24:07 PM

I lived on Lanier in the 80's and early 90's and the only conclusion I came to is the water level has nothing to do with rainfall. So that just leaves the......

Name:	Meema -	Reply
Subject:	Can someone 'splain this to me
Date:	9/21/2009 6:19:52 PM

Which begs the question: If Lanier was originally created for "flood control" why isn't it controlling the flood? I understand this is unusual amounts of rain but I'd really love to know if they closed the gates or not.

Name:	jib -	Reply
Subject:	Can someone 'splain this to me
Date:	9/21/2009 9:27:06 PM

the gates are closed
the lake has risen about 3 feet in 4 days

Name:	danno -	Reply
Subject:	Can someone 'splain this to me
Date:	9/21/2009 10:49:42 PM

If the lake weren't here, Atlanta would be down around Columbus by now.

Name:	jaguar22 -	Reply
Subject:	Can someone 'splain this to me
Date:	9/22/2009 10:58:56 AM

Yes the gates have been closed since last Thursday to the best of my knowledge. I drive over the dam twice a day and live on the lake. My observation is the water in Lake Lanier has become a commodity which was not the case not so many years ago. As a revenue resource it's management is based as such not for flood control or any of the original reasons.

We have received enough rain over the last year and a half to keep the lake at near full pool drought included but the release schedule and increased demand by more people (population) to maintain levels is ever more challenging.

Now who bought the lake level gauge being faulty that was blamed for allowing the lake to slip 18 feet before anyone in charge noticed?

Name:	Meema -	Reply
Subject:	Can someone 'splain this to me
Date:	9/22/2009 7:38:42 PM

Well, dang, it is quite difficult to see the lake level from Mobile, you know. ;-)

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