Lanier is up 2 feet total since first of 08.
What are you, the infernal optimist? What about those poor fish downstream and the power generators?
You are an Ostrich!

And our Lakes get topped off. At least at those levels we know we can survive another year if we cut back.

My concern is our ground water systems. I've noticed two homes within a mile of where I live that their wells have gone dry. Older homes with shallower wells no doubt. But, dry wells never the less.

And to think that Gwinnett County is going to sink wells to provide future water use to their gluttonous community. Instead of building reservoirs, they are going to drain our ground water levels immensely. How destructive is that thought process. If I'm not mistaken, that is also where much of Florida and South Georgia's underground aquifers originate from. Not to mention the future destruction of their own citizens wells.

I'm beginning to think that this water crisis is worse than originally thought. I suspect that in a year or so we'll get into a more normal rain pattern and this drought will be long forgotten. Then we can sit back and wait ten to fifteen years for the next cycle and watch how our current problems will be come multiplied becasue of our lack of resource planning.

That is good news about Lanier and Altoona. I think Altoona completely dried up, didn't it?

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If I'm not mistaken, that happened a about 10 or so years ago in this county. I know of one family that was given some kind of money from the county (grant money?) to help off-set the cost of having a deeper well drilled. Perhaps the county still offers this money. I don't know if it was a low income grant, or for the general public.

A teacher I work with, who lives off 16 in Senoia (not to far from my home in Brooks), had to have a deeper well drilled a few months ago as hers went dry. That really scared me. I hope the rain continues, too.

Down 17 feet at the moment according to this chart: Lake Lanier Info.

The lake needs to be down no more than 15 feet for most businesses like marinas to operate effectively.

The higher the lake gets, the slower it fills. There's something to be said about getting a tropical storm from time to time...isn't there?

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