Releases from Allatoona to be cut by 40-50 percent
The Army Corps of Engineers have decided to reduce the flow out of Lake Allatoona by 40-50 percent, in an effort to keep more water available in the lake for 2008.
However, the article doesn’t give many details. When will this reduction start? What reasons were given for the reduction? If it can be done now, why couldn’t it have been done earlier?
If any of you have more information about this, please post in the comments below.
December 5th, 2007 at 11:40 am
About time that ACE got the message to reduce water outflows at that reservoir. Now time to cut water releases at Lake Lanier by 40% to 50 % as well and all the other reservoirs on Chattahoochee River too. Cut the water flow to old polluting Scholz Generating Plant, in Florida, below Woodruff Dam.
December 5th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Will Lake Lanier pick up the “slack”?
December 5th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Lanier and Allatoona aren’t in the same river basin - water released from Lanier can’t flow downstream from Allatoona, nor vice versa.
December 5th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
As Allatoona is a critical part of the contested ACT water system, I wonder where the ACE is getting its authority to make this decision. Expect a lawsuit to follow…
-st
December 6th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
I still think Allatoona effects the main figure of outflow into FL? Is there a site that maps out the river basins of the entire country? (one stop shop)
December 7th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Cbus > watershed for Allatoona and below it flows strictly into Alabama and exits into ocean at Mobile Bay. It is the one reservoir that causes friction between Georgia and Alabama.