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	Name:	Osms -
	Subject:	Clarification of Variance
	Date:	11/21/2007 4:33:08 PM

See B'ham News article above, it will help. Releases from Martin have been approved to be reduced. Lake has dropped very little in the past week and only 0.4 ft in the past two weeks--hey, they finished dredging.

Rain is required for this approval to work. Deal is we can keep more of the winter rains in the lake than in the past because we won't have to meet the Corps absurd demands for water releases. Will the lake get to 483'--depends on how much rain we get, but we've sure got a better chance now than we had without the approval.

Possibly the best thing to come from all this is we now know the Corps of Engineers has no clue of how to run our river systems. Have you heard of any paper mills closing downstream on the Alabama, any cities on the Alabama running our of water, any companies going broke because they can't use the river for barge traffic, any major snail killings??

The flow rate has been cut to much less than half of Corps requirements for the past month and with no ill effect announced. Absolutely amazing. We'll survive this drought, and we'll be much wiser.

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Clarification of Variance - Osms - 11/21/2007 4:33:08 PM

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