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.MudDucker wrote:Bottom line is that the corp is releasing more water than is coming in, thereby giving the downstream folks more water than they would have if there was a natural flow of water. That isn't right.
It is impossible to let more water out than comes into the system. It's a timeing issueMrGreenJeans wrote:MudDucker wrote:Bottom line is that the corp is releasing more water than is coming in, thereby giving the downstream folks more water than they would have if there was a natural flow of water. That isn't right.
Your post makes it sound like you are under the impression that the benefits of the resevoir are only for upstream folks and not downstream folks as well. If Georgia wanted to reap all the benefits, they shouldn't have seeked Federal funding. I am not saying that what they are doing is right, it just seems that everyones opinion seems to allign exactly with what is best for them.
You Florida coastal people are NOT the ones to talk about unchecked development. There USED to be beautiful dunes I played on between Panama City and Destin, but now if you take a boatride along that coastline, it is solid condos and beachhouses....boggob wrote:I don't think you realize how importat that water is to the fishery in the bay. Maybe if GA realized that unchecked development was not going to work back when the issue over flows began, some 10+ years ago, they would not be in this situation. They do not own the water.
MrGreenJeans wrote:...it just seems that everyones opinion seems to allign exactly with what is best for them.
Imagine that. 
Well said, Rhtfish. You're right on the money.RHTFISH wrote: I freely admit to
"wanting my cake and to eat it also." Admit it folks, isn't that what
we all want?
And haul tail back up the river to rebuild the dam to stop the water when the the river rises because of heavy rain.(Not that we have had any in a while but it will come sooner or later)....there has to be some kind of happy medium or everyone will suffer..Ty one on wrote:
If this was the old wild west days the state of Florida would go up river and blow-up the dam.
If you read back to when these reservoirs were designed, they were designed to store water for the surrounding area and to provide flood control for the downstream areas. I don't think I"ve ever seen a document were downstream flow was to be protected beyond what pre-damn flow would have been.MrGreenJeans wrote:MudDucker wrote:Bottom line is that the corp is releasing more water than is coming in, thereby giving the downstream folks more water than they would have if there was a natural flow of water. That isn't right.
Your post makes it sound like you are under the impression that the benefits of the resevoir are only for upstream folks and not downstream folks as well. If Georgia wanted to reap all the benefits, they shouldn't have seeked Federal funding. I am not saying that what they are doing is right, it just seems that everyones opinion seems to allign exactly with what is best for them.
MudDucker wrote:If you read back to when these reservoirs were designed, they were designed to store water for the surrounding area and to provide flood control for the downstream areas. I don't think I"ve ever seen a document were downstream flow was to be protected beyond what pre-damn flow would have been.MrGreenJeans wrote:MudDucker wrote:Bottom line is that the corp is releasing more water than is coming in, thereby giving the downstream folks more water than they would have if there was a natural flow of water. That isn't right.
Your post makes it sound like you are under the impression that the benefits of the resevoir are only for upstream folks and not downstream folks as well. If Georgia wanted to reap all the benefits, they shouldn't have seeked Federal funding. I am not saying that what they are doing is right, it just seems that everyones opinion seems to allign exactly with what is best for them.
DING DING DING DING , we have a winner. That document came in the 70's along with the Endangered species act. Before that folks South of The three rivers area on Seminole were begging for help with flood control and were pleading for accessable/cheap electricity.
Nice try to deflect the issue, but I don't live in or near Atlanta so I am not aligning myself based on self interest.
No joke.....it's statements like that which make me wanna piss in the Fla aquifer, just for you!rjohnson wrote:Muck-dwelling aquatic life contributes FAR more to society than your average Georgian. No joke.
Let gravity decide who gets the water.
