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Reginald P. Smithers III Reginald P. Smithers III is offline
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Default Lake Lanier drying up?

John H. wrote:


"The Corps says it is just executing the law: it is required to keep the
flow of water coming to two federally-protected species of freshwater
mussels and a small coal-fired power plant in Florida. Moreover, other
federally-controlled reservoirs are depleted, so it has to come from
Lanier."

I wonder what green shirted tree hugger got the law passed in the first
place. The Corps of Engineers does not make laws. Nor can it decide which
laws to obey and which to forget. Perhaps it's time to get the Algore folks
on the hill involved. Oh, wait, they'd be all for the mussels, not the
people of Atlanta.



The Corp has started the process to update their water management plan:

http://isakson.senate.gov/press/2007/101207water.htm