Salamonie Lake Topics: are we gonna have water???

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	Name:	Aardvark -
	Subject:	are we gonna have water???
	Date:	4/21/2007 1:11:33 PM

There is a real chance that the lake won't make it to full pool this year unless we get more rain. When we have drought years, the lake doesn't fill completely, and it begins to drop early in the summer because there is not enough rain to replace evaporation, minimum flow requirements downstream, and other factors that pull water from the lake. As for snow melt, the Tallapoosa basin originates west of Atlanta, so there is no snow pack to melt. We rely on rain over the lake and upstream in the area just east of north of the lake to fill it up. If we don't get that rain, then the lake doesn't fill. It doesn't happen often, but unfortunately there are years when the lake maxes out at 487 point something, then starts going down early in June. It is not much fun when the water never gets high enough to get the boat out and our swimming area is a mud hole, but that happens sometimes. One year the lake will be low, the next year they will have to open the floodgates because we got too much rain.