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Reginald P. Smithers III

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On Oct 17, 4:58 pm, Tim wrote:
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On Oct 16, 2:29 pm, Tim wrote:
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From Lake Lanier Army Corp of Engineers website:
Constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950's, Lake
Lanier is a multi-purpose lake that provides for flood protection,
power production, water supply, navigation, recreation and fish and
wildlife management.
Same way with Lake Carlyle . that is with exception of power
production.
It is fed by the Kaskaskia river, and it's level has dropped
considerably. it is a huge man made lake and is about 4 mi wide and 10
mi long. But in many places the shore line is rather shallow. in some
cases un aprochable with a typical runabout up to 150 ft from shore.
But when the lake is full, these spots are usually navagational within
50-75 ft.
Still plenty deep in the middle, but unhandy for reaching beach lines.
Lake Lanier is fed by two rivers, each runoff from the mountains, so
there is a LOT of water being pushed down, normally. Because of
downstream concerns plus Atlanta's thirst, they are still, even with
drought conditions releasing anywhere from 600 to 900 million gallons
per day. Lanier is a really cool lake, because of the mountainous
conditions, there are many coves and what used to be creek inlets to
explore. How far is your lake down? Lanier is down 12 feet (so far).
I don't really know how much it has dropped and really don't know how
to find the actual stats, but on the south end the lake is dammed, and
there's very little coming over the spill way.

kaskaskia isn't a large river, but now it's about like a creek.

I saw a bit ont he Weather Channel about Lake Hartwell. It's in bad
shape too.

fortunately for our area, it's been raining fairly steady for the last
three hrs and I did look and saw its steady on Carlyle too. But it
won't effect the lake much at all, unless the rains start saturating
up north to flow down.- Hide quoted text -

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Tim, if it's an Army Corp lake, you can get current stats,
predictions, etc from the Corp's website. Yes, Hartwell is in bad
shape too. Oconee is the only one in these parts not suffering.

Actually there are many Georgia Lakes at are doing very well, and are
either very close or even higher than normal summer levels. Many of
these are owned and managed by Georgia Power. They include:

LAKE BURTON, LAKE BLACKSHEAR, BLUE RIDGE LAKE, BARTLETTS FERRY LAKE,
LAKE HARDING, JACKSON LAKE, LAKE OCONEE, LAKE SINCLAIR, TUGALO LAKE,
LAKE YONAH. The Corp. lakes are very low because they have a legal
requirement to provide water downstream.