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	Name:	LifeTime Laker -
	Subject:	Nah...
	Date:	5/2/2007 7:40:28 PM

..... its more fun to harangue you guys when you make idiotic posts. I guess you think they draw it down 'just because' too.

Originally 50ft draw down, then 30, now 10. Adjustments have been made as technology has improved. I am in favor of a 5ft draw down and feel certain it will happen in 2013. But I understand why there MUST be a draw down. But they work on 100 year min/max rules and it was just in 1980 that the dam overflowed, and that was with 10ft draw down so who knows. With satellite technology and computer modeling it could probably be managed with a 5ft dd. But I am not an engineer and wont try to second guess those that are.

But I can tell you this, the secondary dam that was built after the 1980 flood was engineered with 10ft dd in place. If it is determined that a 5ft dd would not be enough to contain a flood of that magnitude, with what is in place, it wont happen. Even with 27 gates wide open, you can only let so much water out. 1980 proved that when the water went over and around the dam.