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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Water Level
	Date:	7/14/2007 10:54:58 PM

I and an engineer friend calculated the amount of water that was out of the lake as of last weekend. Its roughly 1 trillion gallons. Sounds impressive but the fact is that less than one inch of rain over the 3,000 square mile watershed north of Lake Martin (remaining 1,000 sq miles are below the dam) would be more than enough water to fill the lake (assuming it all gets in the Tallapoosa and into the lake which obviously wouldn't happen).

We have friends who have lived on the lake for 30+ years and they have seen it go from winter pool to above full pool in 3 days of a tropical storm (i.e., 12+ inches of rain over the watershed). It can happen, just not likely.