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Broke Point
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Interesting Article Re: Lanier
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12/20/2008 8:50:30 PM
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We are truly blessed at Lake Martin vs. Lake Lanier. See link below:
URL: Lake Lanier Article in AJC Newspaper
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Bspencer
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Interesting Article Re: Lanier
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12/20/2008 10:14:30 PM
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We sure are fortunate. I was over there in mid November and it still looked like Martin did in the summer of 2007. The guys I talked to said that they just haven't recovered like some of the other lakes. The ramp we used was probably 50ft long and it ended right at the edge of the water.
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Maddog
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Interesting Article Re: Lanier
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12/21/2008 7:53:25 AM
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This article mentioned "Of the 9,800 homes with private docks" on Lanier. Does anyone know how many homes with private docks we have on Lake Martin?
My family grew up in the area that is now Lake Lanier and I never thought that I would see Lanier in the shape it is in now. Lanier has two rivers feeding the lake and I have been to the areas of the lake where those two rivers flow into Lanier. Each river has at least if not more than the flow of the Tallapoosa River. However, there are many more demands on Lanier's water inventory than on Martin's inventory. We have many friends and family that have homes on Lanier and some have expressed thoughts of coming to Lake Martin. I tell them that Martin is a terrible lake with mean people living there. I also tell them that we only have a place there because we are in fact "mean people" and like dirty water.
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Osms
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Interesting Article Re: Lanier
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12/21/2008 9:41:11 AM
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Not sure how many docks we have, but we counted 7,840 individual homes and condos around Lake Martin. Of course, practically all homes have docks.
Lake Lanier has several problems, not the least of which is the Corps -- remember last year the Corps drained two feet of the lake because of a "faulty gauge". Atlanta draws a great deal of drinking water from Lanier, as we all know, but much of that water is not returned to the Chattahoochee River because:
1. 25% of the homes in metro Atlanta are on septic tanks. Atlanta allows whole subdivisions to be built using
septic tanks because they want the tax money but won't build treatment plants fast enough. That water is
lost to the downstream requirements and has to be replaced with additional Lake Lanier water.
2. Some drinking water from Lake Lanier is subsequently treated by a sewage treatment plant and the water
is returned to the Flint River system (a no-no). That water lost to the Chattahoochee River also has to be
replaced by Lake Lanier to meet the downstream flow requirements.
Remember the Corps is the approving authority for all this mess, and the Corps and Georgia (Atlanta) recently lost the law suit on appeal to Alabama and Florida. Our friends in LaGrange, West Point, Columbus, and points south are not on Atlanta's side -- they, too, suffer the consequences.
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