Lake Martin Topics: APCo Seeks Temp Rule Curve Var

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	Name:	LifeTime Laker -
	Subject:	APCo Seeks Temp Rule Curve Var
	Date:	10/23/2007 6:08:05 PM

Since your time stamp is after Mav's I will try a little more. As Mav explained, it is a double approach, altering the rule and less releases. Every year we get more rain than is needed to fill the lake. Even this year. They don't 'just close the gates' and let it fill up. It is filled according to a daily schedule with slight variances allowed for local weather. This year nobody had a crystal ball to see the rain was going to just stop. Therefore those early spring rain events, coupled with winter rains, generated MUCH more water than was needed to meet the curve at the time, so it was passed through. Then in late spring we got NO rain. The rise in the lake is very tightly controlled. It isn't just filled as mother nature delivers, however, that is pretty much what APCO is asking this year. They want to raise it above winter pool now and start the spring filling early, thereby almost guarenteeing a rise to full pool. That is assuming only slightly less rain as we have had the last two years averaged.

Also as Mav pointed out, most of the recent decrease is due to the downstream project that required water. That should not be an issue now and the lake will start rising back to normal, and then hopefully even 3 feet above normal.