Lake Martin Topics: Never gets to 490. Why?

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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Never gets to 490. Why?
	Date:	5/15/2012 12:27:48 PM

Just to give you a sense how quickly the lake can fill, in the early days winter pool was 440'. Yep, it used to drop 50 feet in the winter and would fill according to the rule, except in drought years. The watershed for Lake Martin is over 3,000 square miles in size and if you do the math and drop 1 inch of rain on the watershed and convert it to gallons you will understand why even 6 inches is very little to work with in case of a significant storm event.

One purpose of the dam is to regulate flow to prevent flooding downstream. In order to do that they need capacity. I agree with the others that APCO has done a significantly better job managing water levels since the debacle in 2007 when I left after July 4th and never came back because there was no water at my house.