Engineers agree to hold more water in Lake Lanier
Published: November 15, 2008
ATLANTA (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will hold more water in Lake Lanier this winter.
In a decision announced on Friday, the corps said sending less water down the Chattahoochee River through Atlanta was determined to have no long-term significant environmental or human impacts.
Carol Couch, director of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, had asked the corps to reduce the required minimum amount of water flowing down the Chattahoochee by 13 percent.
On Friday the lake was 18 feet below full pool, its lowest this time of the year since it was built in the 1950s.
The decision represents a potential one-foot boost to Lanier’s level.
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Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.ajc.com
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
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