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	Name:	MrHodja -
	Subject:	Don't forget....
	Date:	7/31/2010 11:43:34 AM

We've been on the lake for about 15 years or so and the drought of 2007 (or was it 2008?) is the only time I can remember the water being super-low. Question I have is this: Is raising the winter pool a knee-jerk reaction to the 07/08(?) drought? Do we really want to possibly give up great water for a few more inches of depth? And I know you argue that it might not affect water quality but we have more and more residents fertilizing lawns and thus more and more fertilizer runoff into the lake. The yearly "flushing" so far has kept the negative effects at bay.

Not to mention that fact that there is always enough water to fill the lake - the question is how much of it Alabama Power decides to share with us rather than using it to generate electricity. Even a higher winter pool won't affect that.

Maybe we need to try a higher winter pool for a couple years to see what the effects are.

Just my opinion on a hot, yet wonderful Saturday morning at Lake Martin!!