Re: Georgia still has water problems

Oh boy.  Still praying for rain out there.  Here too, but y'all need it
worse than we do.

On 1/8/08, Bonnie Holmes <holmesbm@usit.net> wrote:
>
> This is from the Chattanooga Times, 1/3/2008
>
> Lack of rain dries Lake Allatoona
> Lake Allatoona's water level normally drops 17 feet in the winter as a
> flood control measure, but a lack of rainfall has pushed the lake even
> lower this season. Islands that normally cannot be seen in the winter
> have cropped up, and some creeks and coves are nearly bone dry, said
> Christopher Purvis, a park ranger for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
> At one cove near the lake's dam, dozens of tree stumps, broken bottles
> and a single swim fin dot the lake bed, now void of water except for a
> tiny stream that winds for several hundred yards. The mud remains moist
> enough that it leaves footprints.
>
> E-mail Angie Herrington at aherrington@timesfreepress.com
>
>
>
> Bonnie Holmes
> ETN Zone 7
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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