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Name:	Webmaster -	Reply
Subject:	Water Level
Date:	4/17/2012 3:46:22 AM

Anyone notice that the water rise has staved-off? It is inches low from where it should be right now. I thought it was going slow to nil and just now looked at the chart. Can only be one thing... Lack of rain.

URL: Lake Martin Water Level

Name:	Ulysses E. McGill -	Reply
Subject:	its been very dry
Date:	4/17/2012 10:44:53 AM

and this current system hasn't helped much as of yet.....do a little rain dance.

Name:	Osms -	Reply
Subject:	Water Level
Date:	4/17/2012 12:01:15 PM

Take a look at Lake Harris. They started refilling Harris on April 1, almost exactly the same time we went flat. "U" is also correct, it's been dry the past couple of weeks so the effect on Martin from refilling Harris is noticeable.

Name:	Webmaster -	Reply
Subject:	Water Level
Date:	4/17/2012 1:08:10 PM

That's interesting. I had not looked at Harris... Actually I read a conversation over on the Logan Martin Lake forum that made me check Martin. The folks on Logan Martin feel slighted every drought because that lake is operationally used to keep the other lakes on the Coosa River at more consistent levels.

Name:	Osms -	Reply
Subject:	Water Level
Date:	4/17/2012 1:48:19 PM

Well, that's partially the case. On the Coosa system only Lake Weiss and Logan Martin are reservoirs. All the rest are called "run-of-the-river" lakes which means they are small in capacity, stay close to the original banks, and more shallow. When Logan Martin folks see their lake lowered it's usually to cool the coal fired, steam power plant just outside Childersburg. River water is used to cool that plant and in late summer more water is needed to mix with the hot water to meet Fed specs. The other reason for a drawdown is drought. Another is to meet downstream requirements....the Corps of Engineers likes to call it Navigation, but there is no river traffic north of Clairborne Dam on the Alabama River now according to the Corps records.

Name:	twc -	Reply
Subject:	Water Level
Date:	4/17/2012 3:00:33 PM

Yeah we do.....

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