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Maverick
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Sonny Perdue Press Release
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10/16/2007 7:21:30 PM
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Governor Presents Solution to Corps on Excess Water Releases
ATLANTA Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that he has directed the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) to provide a letter outlining a solution to the Army Corps of Engineers regarding the excess release of water from ACF reservoirs.
Governor Perdue has requested the immediate alteration of all ACF reservoir releases, so that releases from Woodruff Dam at Lake Seminole are only equivalent to inflows, up to 5,000 cubic feet per second (CFS). Governor Perdue stipulates that if inflows are greater, releases should only equal 5,000 CFS and all additional inflows will be stored. In order to make an immediate short-term impact on Georgia¹s water supply, Governor Perdue requested this action be taken at once, and kept in place until March 1, 2008.
Today we are handing the Army Corps of Engineers a solution to an ongoing problem that has contributed to the most severe drought in Georgia history, said Governor Sonny Perdue. This is a unifying document that will help citizens that live upstream, midstream and downstream of Georgia¹s reservoirs, as well as citizens in Alabama and Florida. I am extremely grateful for the united support of Georgia¹s state leaders such as the Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle and Speaker Glenn Richardson, as well as our Congressional delegation including Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson.
Governor Perdue set a deadline for a response from the Corps by of close of business Wednesday, October 17, 2007. If a favorable response is not rendered by this time, Governor Perdue will pursue all options, including legal measures if necessary.
A copy of the letter to the Army Corps of Engineers is attached.
URL: Letter to Corps of Engineers
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Bob
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Sonny Perdue Press Release
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10/16/2007 7:25:06 PM
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So whats your take Mav...actually seems reasonable to me...
Bob
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Maverick
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Sonny Perdue Press Release
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10/16/2007 7:55:37 PM
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Bob:
No comment - LOL.
On the surface it appears to be a reasonable approach to maintaining what waters you currently have left in storage. Especially in light of the historical drought we currently face.
Appears Purdue is trying to be proactive and one of the most interesting sections of the letter is all the data suggesting the drought the Southeast is currently facing is not going to subside anytime soon.
Basically from what I have read Gov. Perdue is saying he is willing to push down stream what inflow comes into Seminole but no more than 5000 cfs and all additional inflow will be stored. Not sure what this does to downstream requirement on the AFC basin though, that is the real question.
Wonder if this will come up in the weekly drought conference call tomorrow with the Corps as the ACT basin needs a quantifiable plan of action as well to conserve our waters within the ACT basin.
Just hope it does not open up the Water Wars issue again (even though this matter has never been finalized and is still in the courts from my research). As the AFC and ACT Basins have been at the forefront of the water wars over the years.
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Bob
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Sonny Perdue Press Release
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10/16/2007 8:08:09 PM
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Maintaining the current levels makes sense to me...Thanks for posting your thoughts, I know its a complicated issue...
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LifeTime Laker
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Sonny Perdue Press Release
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10/16/2007 9:21:35 PM
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Not stirring the puddn' with this, just baffled as to how a statement like this makes it out:
"Today we are handing the Army Corps of Engineers a solution to an ongoing problem that has contributed to the most severe drought in Georgia history, said Governor Sonny Perdue."
It has NOT contributed to the 'drought', as drought refers to rainfall. It is a severe water 'crisis' due to drought true enough. And the proposal is a partial solution to the crisis and management of available resources, but not the drought. The only solution to the drought is rainfall.
Words have meanings!!
Am I the only one that sees this? In the grand scheme of things it really means nothing and does not affect the meaning of the statement, but if a dumb, fat, redneck who likes to sleep under boats can catch it, shouldn't someone on the Gov's staff?
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Kizma Anuice
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BA-BAA BLACK SHEEP
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10/16/2007 9:46:53 PM
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"words have meanings" and one of the meanings of drought is:
A prolonged dearth or shortage.
Now I and the gov think that the dearth or shortage is referring to a dearth or shortage of "water" including but not limited to "rainfall".
That being the case, if you empty you supply of water you are contributing to the dearth or shortage of water.
If you want to parce words you should try to be better at it.
start with ba-baa black sheep
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LifeTime Laker
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Words have meanings
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10/16/2007 9:57:46 PM
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but 'parce' is not one of them.
Controlling what resources you have is NOT the same as solving the drought problem.
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Kizma Anuice
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I cant spelland you cant think
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10/16/2007 11:11:54 PM
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ok, parse not parce, and btw parce s a word. check the urban dictionary.
it describes you.
and you should changer your name to ltdh
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Bob
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Sonny Perdue Press Release
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10/17/2007 6:25:44 AM
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Yea, I kind of agree with you there LTL but he has to create the "Drama", not that current events should not handle that factor. It is clearly not a "fix" as you correctly point out the only "fix". The fact is we do have to learn to manage our water resources more carefully. Pray for rain I guess...
Speaking of that, my 7 year old told me he does not ever remember a day where it rained all day...AMAZING huh?
Bon
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DJ
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Sonny Perdue Press Release
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10/17/2007 7:48:28 AM
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I thought someone, somewhere at sometime said we were losing more water to evaporation then the lake was flowing into the lakes? How will anything stop that?
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DJ
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Sonny Perdue Press Release
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10/17/2007 7:55:14 AM
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OOPS? I’m just waking up, so I did not read that post again before sending it in. But was saying that someone said once that there was more water evaporation than was flowing into the lake?
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LifeTime Laker
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Sonny Perdue Press Release
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10/17/2007 9:05:45 AM
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That came from the weather channell special last week. But I am not sure how accurate it is. I know that any body of water looses a lot to evaporation in hot summer months, but with the cooler temps now evaporaration has slowed considerably.
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Osms
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A sobering thought...
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10/17/2007 3:24:31 PM
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While this proposal may be a good idea for the ACF, if the same minimum flow concept were placed on Carters and Allatoona the Coosa would be hurting. Minimum flow rate from Allatoona is 240 cfs, but releases have been more than twice that much even after the Corps cut back on Oct 3. Carters is the same story. Both lakes have negative inflow rates at the present time, according to Corps conference call.
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