Lake Martin Topics: Somebody is mistaken

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	Name:	LifeTime Laker -
	Subject:	Somebody is mistaken
	Date:	7/15/2007 3:44:58 PM

The closest the lake has been to a flood stage would have been 1980. That year the dam overflowed and washed out the hwy 50 bridge below the dam. Even at that, the impoundment was only very minimally over full. Now the same event to today would cause levels over 490 because the concrete barrier that was built 4 feet high on the east side of the dam to hold back that overflow. Also, no matter how flat ones lot is on Lake Martin, or how little above 490 your house is, you don't have to buy flood insurance because we are NOT in a flood plain. I have seen water an inch or two above full DURING major rain events, but only in the extreme backwaters. This is due to the back flow of water trying to make it into the main channel and downstream. But I don't consider that tiny bit of water for very short times to be over full pool, just as I don't consider the few inches we are always shy in the summer as not full pool.