Name:   Osms - Subject:   Lake level reports Date:   12/20/2016 9:47:57 AM

Harry, in my opinion, this website has the most accurate and valuable information on any lake in the US.  Go to lakemartin.com and you can look up lake levels for most lakes in the country, and you can bring up the historical graphs for many of the lakes for the past 5 or more years.  Now that APCO has deleted graphs from their public information we use this website to watch the entire ACT basin and all of the lakes and dams.  Especially useful is the information on the Corps of Engineers lakes like Lake Alatoona on the Coosa River in Georgia.

Interestingly, the Corp of Engineers rewrote their 50 year old Operating Manual this year and now their policy is to keep Alatoona up higher in the fall and start taking it down on Dec 1.  That policy will affect Lake Martin water levels because we have to make up the loss of flow in the Coosa River with Lake Martin water.  It affected us this year by about a foot.  Releases from Alatoona are now allowing Martin to increase slightly.  Too much info here, but suggest you go with this website for info. It gives real time levels.