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4 years ago we opened sales to Atlanta for a nice dollar and it has taken 3 years to recover. It was trucked out. Sight by my own eyes.
OK so you are telling me that a lake with 87.5 square miles of surface area and a shore line the length of the sate of California, was drained down to it's lowest level ever (in 2008) because water was being trucked out of South Carolina to Atlanta? First off half of the lake is in Georgia to begin with (the state line runs down the middle of the lake) so why would they have to drive trucks to SC to get the water? Second, how many trucks would that take (Hundreds of millions)?? Third, the water in the lake does not belong to SC or GA so neither state has the power to "sell" water from Hartwell to anyone. My dad has lived on the lake for 25 years and is a member of the USPS
http://www.usps.org/ and Lake Hartwell Association
http://www.lakehartwellassociation.org/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx and he has attended numerous Corps meetings to discuss lake levels and nothing like this was ever brought up. Nothing in the papers or online was ever mentioned about the lake being drained by water being trucked out.
It was simply the severe drought that occurred in the entire Southeast. Not enough inflow (from rain) and mandatory minimum outflow (power generation, keeping the port deep enough, etc) that caused the lake level to drop. Most of the lakes in GA were down at the same time as this was a regional drought. The same conditions exist out West right now. Lake Travis near Austin TX is at historic low levels...
Don't want to argue with you. I just commented on all of the nice work you are doing to your boat and mentioned my dad lived on Hartwell... I look forward to seeing what other cool things you do to you boat.
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