Where the extra water from Lake Lanier goes.
The Lawrenceville Weather Blog has a great post that details the area of the ACF (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint) river basin, which feeds into and out of Lake Lanier.
In addition to showing the layout of the area, it explains why we’re in such a bad situation right now. Essentially, Lake Lanier’s watershed only consists of 5% of the total watershed in the basin, but it’s relied on for 65% of the total water storage for the system. It quickly becomes obvious that more reservoirs need to be built to help share the load.
If you’ve ever been curious about the layout of the various rivers involved in the drought, it’s a great read.
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:08 pm
georgia has more to worry about than just this drought. check this link out to the georgia water coalition site….
http://www.garivers.org/gawater/aug7ajc.html
it shows how a lack of proper leadership and good old fashioned backdoor dealings in money and politics is leading to a massive disaster for georgia and the florida aquifer. one company’s plant uses over 59 million gallons of fresh aquifer water a day. coastal communities are already overbuilt to be supported with fresh water. salt water intrusion is already happening and yet georgia has no plan to curb water useage long term. the leaders of this state knew there was a problem but did almost nothing until dooms day arrived and now we all suffer. meanwhile they want to create environmental havoc in federally protected estuaries that will allow red tide to come in and other problems and cause major ecological damage. this isn’t just about saving some mussels or fish. don’t be fooled by politician’s spin on the truth.
btw, nice website. good info site for this disaster. let’s hope these current leaders we have, have a better sustainable long term plan to fix this mess than just suing the feds and destroyed parts of the eco-system in both florida and alabama and delaying the inevitable.
sorry for the long comment.