BoatBanter.com - Lake Lanier drying up?

On Oct 28, 1:18 pm, John H. wrote:
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:49:40 -0700, wrote:
On Oct 19, 9:25 pm, Jack Redington wrote:
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On Oct 18, 7:35 pm, Jack Redington wrote:

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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
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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.

I think Hartwell is down about 10-11 ft and things do not look good.
Last weekend I had 15 ft under my dock in Gumlog creek. But our place is
blessed with deep water. My biggest concern is getting out of Gumlog
Creek to the main channel. There is one point that is rather skinny, but
I check it last weekend and there is a skinny, but deep path threw it.

At this time I am considering if I should get a trailer for the runabout
and pull it. If this goes into next year I don't want to be stuck with
the boat on the lift and no way to get it out. ie ramp access etc.

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I've fished up in Gumlog creek. Had a friend who had a place close to
there. Lake Lanier is now down 14 feet, they are saying there's enough
water for 80 days. Army Corp of Engineers, because of their attitude
that no one can make a decision unless it's in some obscure code or
law, won't stop; discharging even now!

Well if you are ever in the area again let me know.

I'll do that, thanks!

And I agree, the corp is going to keep doing this even though it really
does not make any sense to me. Where I live they pull water from Lanier.

I guess when the place is dry they will stop :-(

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As of last night, the state has filed an injunction to try and get
this madness stopped. I've dealt with the Corp, and have vowed to
never, ever take a project that they are involved in. They get to use
zero engineering judgement, and can only do what is spelled out in a
manual, or code book.

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John, your trash mouth simply shows your blanket *Army can do know
wrong* rhetoric. I've dealt with the corp. Many times. I know how they
operate, as opposed to how civilian engineers operate. And my
statement is true. They get to use no judgement. Let's say that I
design a simple span beam. Now, I've done the math, I know the loads,
I've added a factor of safety, etc. etc. Now, the Corp wants to see
any and all calculations. If I take one step in those calculations
that is known good engineering, but is not completely spelled out in a
code book, or one of the corps manuals, they will not approve it. I've
even had a corp engineer tell me that he understands why I did what I
did, understands that it works, understands that it is good
engineering, but can't approve it because it's not their SOP.