Tuesday, May 20, 2008
News A hot, dry summer for Lake Lanier?
Posted by Scott Freeman on Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Don't get all primed to start watering your lawn and washing your car and turning on those yard fountains just yet.
While there's a feeling we're out of the danger zone with water, an official with the Army Corps of Engineers told a group in Dawsonville yesterday that Lake Lanier could drop six feet by September if we have the dry summer that everyone is predicting.
According to a story in the Gwinnett Daily Post, the water manager told the Lake Lanier Association that the lake level is expected to drop this summer — the only issue is by how much. That, of course, did not make the Lake Lanier residents very happy.
But Brig. Gen. Joseph Schroedel also gave one of the most succinct, no bullshit statements about the region's water crisis that we've heard:
I feel your pain. Look at how fast the population is growing. We can't keep leaning on the same system and quadruple the population."
Anyone in state government paying attention?
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