Our field..

This idiocy is what gets me:

Does a couple of mussels trump 5 million people? What I hear from the Corps is that the answer to that is yes." But no one knows whether the mussels — the endangered fat threeridge and threatened purple bankclimber — actually need the 3 billion gallons they get every day.

The Corps released billions of gallons of additional water from Lanier to the Apalachicola River, for the spawning season of the threatened Gulf sturgeon. So few of the prehistoric fish remain that a federal biologist in Florida has estimated fewer than 10 females are able to spawn in any given year.

I pulled my boat out of Lanier two weekends ago --and I'm not certain if it will be going in next year. But boating isn't the issue here --depleting the water supply for the 'fat threeridge', 'purple bankclimber' and 'Gulf strugeon' is.
 
The bigger problem than the gulf sturgeon is the destruction of Apalachicola oyster beds from variations in salinity due to metro Atlanta development.

beej67,
Hydrologist, P.E., owner of a sailboat that was moored in Apalachicola for many years
 
Pat Stevens, an environmental planner for the Atlanta Regional Commission who regularly keeps tabs on how much water is available for Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, DeKalb and other metro Atlanta governments, said the Corps' "wastes water unnaturally."
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Anytime the Corps is involved, it is a prescription for disaster. Those guys are idiots. Common sense and reason are qualities not to be found among the Corps. And let's not forget that the Corps was responsible for the New Orleans levees.
 
The Corps is not the problem. Alabama, and particularly Florida, have engineers whose slanted, biased data resulted in Georgia getting shafted in the Tri-State Water Wars.

The ACT and ACF compacts fizzled when Florida made good on the annual threat it had been making for years, and did not vote to extend the compacts. Negotiations are over and good planning is somewhat impossible now. The huge mistake in the compacts, from the mouth of commisioner Lindsay Thomas, is that the three states never came to a consensus on data before starting negotiation. There are hydrologic models out there from each of the three states that all show drastically different results for the river.

The releases Georgia is required to get to the state line are absurd, and Bama and Florida like it that way. They're asking for expedited consideration of their injuction of the endangered species act, just to force us to release so much water that Lake Lanier will run dry. The only thing we can hope for is that when it goes to the Supreme Court, the justice assigned to it is sympathetic to the needs of Atlanta.
 
A. This is quickly becoming a "nothing to do with football" thread. FWIW

B. I did a report on the whole tri-state river agreements with Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Funny that it's coming up for real, now.
 
I feel the need to steam some mussels for the Army game tailgate. Perhaps also I could go fishing for a special sturgeon.
 
GTland03 said:
alabama needs to find their own water. period.
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Yeah, lets just ignore the fact that the Chattahoochee (read: Flint, read: Apalachicola) makes up the Georgia-Alabama border from Columbus to Bainbridge.
 
WSB reported last night that due to the millions of gallons (exact number escapes me, but it was extremely high) that the corps allows to flow from Allatoona EVERY DAY, that the lakes in Alabama (they focused on Gadsden) are low, but nothing like Lanier and Allatoona. PLUS, they have zero watering restrictions and are having a big time with Georgia water despite being in the same drought stricken region. That, my friends, makes no sense and for us to stand by and watch this happen is a travesty and it will soon cripple OUR way of life and our economy.

Write a congressman? I'm not sure. Grant field is just a mere example of what we're soon to be witinessing waste away before our eyes. Its been about two weeks since it was last watered, I presume. Atlanta's water situation is in a serious danger zone.

...meanwhile, the corps keeps the gates open so that Georgia water can flow abundantly into Alabama so they can water their lawns, wash their cars, you name it...without any restrictions, whatsoever.
 
Geetee said:
...meanwhile, the corps keeps the gates open so that Georgia water can flow abundantly into Alabama so they can water their lawns, wash their cars, you name it...without any restrictions, whatsoever.
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According to corps representatives there is no consideration for changing their water release amounts out of Lanier or Allatoona. You're right --it makes no sense to just sit by and let this happen --something should have already been done about it. I'm afraid it's probably too late.

We're no doubt going to have to change our water using habits --probably for a long time to come. But more needs to be done --like curbing development around the area.
 
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