Lanier water releases are increasing
As we speculated a few days ago (and was discussed in our forums), the amount of water being released from Lake Lanier is increasing. According to the AJC, the average daily release last month was 1.2 billion gallons, while this month it will be about 1.7 billion gallons.
We have no idea what this means for the 16% flow reduction that’s due to occur next week, nor do we know what the new “how many days do we have left” number is. We’ll try to work that out later today for you.
In any case, this isn’t good.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Hey, we have a REASON! Very cool.
I would assume the 16% reduction is sans the extra water they plan to release this month to keep the other resevroirs(sp) full.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Wanted to also note there is an earlier, expanded message from AJC at
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/news/stories/2007/10/13/watergov1013b.html
That talks about how much water different areas are using, and what they’ve managed to reduce their consumption by. It also discusses the additional water outflow in more detail.