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	Name:	PC Al -
	Subject:	For Those Who Care
	Date:	4/1/2007 5:03:17 PM

1. For any and all who are satisfied with the water level of Lake Martin and accept the fact that we have had very little rain and therefore “that’s the way it is” – then this post if not for you. Please skip to the next post.

2. For any, like me, that are frustrated with what has happened with our water levels for the last eight or nine months, then this might be an interesting read. I visited my brother on Lake Harris (Wedowee) yesterday. For those who do not know, Lake Harris is the lake above us on the Tallapoosa. Today, April 1, is the day for the plug to go in their dam to begin summer fill. To my surprise, my brother was happy as a lark because their water has come up a foot and a half in the last ten days. Their water level is higher at this date than any year he has been there. For the same 10 day period last year, their level dropped .4 of a foot. They are starting their fill 1.2 feet above winter pool while Lake Martin started ours .4 of a foot below winter level, a difference of almost one and one half feet. The people who left this thread because of item 1 above would say Martin has not come up because of lack of rain, but the rest of us want to know why the water that brought Lake Harris (Wedowee) up one and one half feet before their fill date did not come down to our lake during our fill time.

Since only the people like myself who are concerned about the water level are reading this post at this point, I will continue. I also have friends who have lake places on Logan Martin Lake, Smith Lake, Lay Lake and Lake Mitchell. Have talked to friends on each lake and none seem concerned about having full pool this year. Smith Lake normally takes their lake down 14 feet for winter pool. They are now down exactly 3 feet from full pool. Seems they had known about the impending drought and have only been down at a low point of 9 feet since December of 2006. In 2007, they have only been down 7.9 feet from full pool at their lowest point. Just over half of normal. Same with Logan Martin, which is now down 1.1 foot from full pool.

When I check the levels of other Alabama Power river systems for their levels March 31 relative to full pool, the numbers show: Black Warrior River – Smith down 3.0 feet, Bankhead down 0.4, Holt down 0.2. Coosa River – Weiss down 0.7, Neely Henry down 1.2 feet, Logan Martin down 1.3 feet, Lay down 0.2, Mitchell down 0.2 and Jordan down 0.8. Tallapoosa River – Harris down 6.8 feet (just started filling today), Martin down 5.9 feet, Yates down 2.8 feet and Thurlow down 1.6 feet. The Tennessee River – Guntersville down 0.8, Pickwick down 1.8 feet, Wheeler down 3.0 feet and Wilson down 1.2 feet.

Despite the lack of rain, it appears other lakes have anticipated the drought and took measures to offset it. Every Alabama Power lake except Martin appears to either be at or above the lake levels they were at this time last year. Again Lake Harris (Wedowee) on the same Tallapoosa River as Lake Martin is up 1.7 feet from this date last year while Martin is 3.9 feet below the fill rule. Sounds like the keeper of the Lake Martin water level also works for the Alabama Two Year College System. They don’t appear to be looking out for our best interest. And because of item 1 above, we don’t have to listen to how much better off we are than Lake Lanier. Who cares about Lake Lanier? We need somebody to look after the interest of Lake Martin.