Robert Lz
22 Billion Gallon MISTAKE July 2006
The Corps acknowledged over the weekend that a faulty gauge at Lake Lanier had allowed 22 billion gallons of water to be released by mistake.
Water from Georgia is being sent downstream to Florida to protect endangered sturgeon and mussels. Perdue said the state would seek a temporary restraining order Wednesday to limit the amount of water the Corps could take from lakes along the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River system.
The Corps acknowledged over the weekend that a faulty gauge at Lake Lanier had allowed 22 billion gallons of water to be released by mistake. Carol Couch, director of Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division, said the amount of water mistakenly drained would have been enough to support the city of Atlanta for 118 days.
– NewsMax
We were already on a path toward a drought this summer in Georgia, kudos to the Corps for making it much worse. Before you start defending the Corps saying it was just a faulty gauge, for weeks residents of the lake area had contacted them telling them how quickly it seemed the lake was getting drained, the complaints were ignored.
22 Billion Gallon MISTAKE July 2006
The Corps acknowledged over the weekend that a faulty gauge at Lake Lanier had allowed 22 billion gallons of water to be released by mistake.
Water from Georgia is being sent downstream to Florida to protect endangered sturgeon and mussels. Perdue said the state would seek a temporary restraining order Wednesday to limit the amount of water the Corps could take from lakes along the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River system.
The Corps acknowledged over the weekend that a faulty gauge at Lake Lanier had allowed 22 billion gallons of water to be released by mistake. Carol Couch, director of Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division, said the amount of water mistakenly drained would have been enough to support the city of Atlanta for 118 days.
– NewsMax
We were already on a path toward a drought this summer in Georgia, kudos to the Corps for making it much worse. Before you start defending the Corps saying it was just a faulty gauge, for weeks residents of the lake area had contacted them telling them how quickly it seemed the lake was getting drained, the complaints were ignored.