81 days until Lake Lanier is finished

[§treet_§peed]

you can thank your state people and the army for royally ****ing up this time....

http://newmedia.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/547/

guess some people will get the shaft from the public....:idb:

[§treet_§peed]

lol

[Maniaç]

Oh well, lets see what happens.

[Dracc]

heard about this earlier.... tisk tisk

[4dmin]

we are screwed

[JDM onlyy]

I read it but I don't get it. So what happened? We used too much water and no one noticed? So they can't let water out of Buford Dam because we're low? Whose fault is it? Army or the State or both?

[§treet_§peed]

hehe not me i'm on well water..:D





but when that runs out wer're gonna get the shaft.. you know why they pumped thse millions of galllons a day out right? to save some kind of fish or some ****.. fuk those bitches, humans first

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Carol Couch will be sitting on the couch soon. Shes getting replaced in January by a new EPD Director. Its kinda funny how we're in a ration but we sell water from allatoona and laneir to Alabama. Wonder if their on a ration?

[§treet_§peed]

actually both if i am not mistaken

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We're not neccessarily screwed. If the EPD Director finished grade school science class, she would know that banning lawn watering would be one of the last things she should do.

[JDM onlyy]

actually both if i am not mistaken

Okay, so they pumped a sh!tload of water out to save some fish? WTF?

Umm..ok. And they just realized, "Oh gosh, we used all this water and we don't have much for ourselves. So everyone, we have to PINCH TIGHT on water?"

Is that what happened? If so, STUPID ASSHOLES ARE SAVING A FISH?! Can we EAT this fish? Will this fish do me any good in anyway? If not, then worry bout it later....they have natural instincts to survive don't they?

[JDM onlyy]

We're not neccessarily screwed. If the EPD Director finished grade school science class, she would know that banning lawn watering would be one of the last things she should do.


Why is that? I've lost my brain cells from countless hangovers and other things. Lol

[§treet_§peed]

yeah that should survie after are i think they have been here for millions of years before us. besidess it was some fich or clam or some ****. they pumped that water out to help save them from the drought or whatever

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Okay, so they pumped a sh!tload of water out to save some fish? WTF?

Umm..ok. And they just realized, "Oh gosh, we used all this water and we don't have much for ourselves. So everyone, we have to PINCH TIGHT on water?"

Is that what happened? If so, STUPID ASSHOLES ARE SAVING A FISH?! Can we EAT this fish? Will this fish do me any good in anyway? If not, then worry bout it later....they have natural instincts to survive don't they?

This is why shes getting fired. Poor management thats got everyone pissed about this. Its ok. i've been using gray-water to wash my car. Hooking the hose up to the sink in my house. You use less water washing your car @ home versus taking it to those drive through car washes

[§treet_§peed]

lol im still going to the car wash to wash it.. think i might go tomorrow and wash it

[JDM onlyy]

This is why shes getting fired. Poor management thats got everyone pissed about this. Its ok. i've been using gray-water to wash my car. Hooking the hose up to the sink in my house. You use less water washing your car @ home versus taking it to those drive through car washes

She must be one of those environmentalists that wants to save all the animals but never think that if you do sooooo much for an animal, they won't be able to survive on their own, and plus the fact that what you're doing could harm your own species. We already die enough from diseases, murders, and just accidents...Why harm ourselves for these fishes? ****ing fags...

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Why is that? I've lost my brain cells from countless hangovers and other things. Lol

Theres a detailed water cycle. Simply put, since no one is watering their lawns, theres no water evaporating into the sky to turn back into rain. Thats why you see alot of cloudless, sunny, blue sky days. On top of that, grass is (i think) the 2nd bigest provider of OXYGEN, the stuff humans need to LIVE

[JDM onlyy]

Theres a detailed water cycle. Simply put, since no one is watering their lawns, theres no water evaporating into the sky to turn back into rain. Thats why you see alot of cloudless, sunny, blue sky days. On top of that, grass is (i think) the 2nd bigest provider of OXYGEN, the stuff humans need to LIVE

I thought it was something with moisture in the ground. I just couldn't remember...

[Kyle]

Sucks if you own property there. The lake behind my parents house is low this month for the first time in over 20 years, I think they should sell before the same thing happens to us.

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lol im still going to the car wash to wash it.. think i might go tomorrow and wash it

I cant get into those car washes, too damn low. Last time my cars tow hook caught on the track and ****ed up the timing of the whole thing, i had to get pushed over it and my car had a whole bunch of soap left over since it didnt get rinsed properly

[JDM onlyy]

Sucks if you own property there. The lake behind my parents house is low this month for the first time in over 20 years, I think they should sell before the same thing happens to us.

Lake down the street from my house looks as full as ever. I remember seeing it getting dry at one point, but right now...it looks as full and pretty as it ever has. :goodjob:

[esiatlanta]

thats sucks......

[Alan®]

yup we have no water but the ****ing muscles(i think thats what they are)do. My dad is an engineer that graduated from west point and is sitting here scratching his head like how the **** did these guys screw this up

[R3RUN]

Been raining alot down here in Florida. Sounds like its needed a bit more up there.

[lightspeed]

We'll survive. I used to live in Santa Clara, CA and we were constantly rationing. It rained on maybe 30 days a year total, mostly in one season. Sure, you cant water your yard (dont have grass really anyway) or wash the car, but there was always enough for home use. When I see people running sprinklers out in the yard off of tap water, I just have to scratch my head. I really like to watch them watering the yard in the rain...thats just brilliant. This is just a reality check.
They should have started inforcing rationing a long time ago. Hopefully they'll learn from this for the future.

[Ran]

Having us send millions of gallons of water to Florida every week/month/whatever with no set limit or circumstance is just stupid and that's why our lakes are going dry. Had they set some limitations in this requirement, then we'd be fine.

[Glides]

Actually most car washes recycle about 90% of their water. That's why they are still allowed to operate during this crisis.

I agree about the watering of the lawns.

[Glides]

Having us send millions of gallons of water to Florida every week/month/whatever with no set limit or circumstance is just stupid and that's why our lakes are going dry. Had they set some limitations in this requirement, then we'd be fine.

We are sending that water because there is an endangered Muscle that will die without the water. See, in the big scope of things, endangered species comes before car washing, lawn watering and even Human needs. Thats why Florida is getting all that water.

[Ran]

We are sending that water because there is an endangered Muscle that will die without the water. See, in the big scope of things, endangered species comes before car washing, lawn watering and even Human needs. Thats why Florida is getting all that water.I wasn't referring to the car washing and other human needs. I can take my car to the car wash. I was referring to our lakes going dry due to some asanine bill. Pretty sure it's not doing our local environment any good.

["B"]

Carol Couch will be sitting on the couch soon. Shes getting replaced in January by a new EPD Director. Its kinda funny how we're in a ration but we sell water from allatoona and laneir to Alabama. Wonder if their on a ration?


As of this morning, no they are not.

[§treet_§peed]

**** the muscle.. humans need water more.. i'm sure we can all agre we would rather have peole taking showers than a muscle living.

[Stormhammer]

**** the muscle.. humans need water more.. i'm sure we can all agre we would rather have peole taking showers than a muscle living.

thats not how things work - we can deal without taking a shower every few days - look at the mall of georgia - they had to relocate it over about 3000 feet one way because initial development plans laid it out on a natural marshland ( its right there by the mall, you can walk it by the Wendys at the back ) which had an endangered FLY species. Cost developers millions in the relocation, but in the end it ensures the survival of a species. We can live just peachy, sure my nuts my get smelly from ball sweat, but who cares, more fun to teabag women with them.

[§treet_§peed]

lawls but i like being fesh a clean.. eh what do i car i have well water so it will be okay for a little while hahahahahahahahah

[AznTraitor]

maybe it'll hurricane/monsoon/heavy rain for a month straight.

[civic95]

This shouldn't have been a surprise, we've had some type of water ban every summer and fall since I can remember. More people keep moving here (causing demand to go up), and they've done nothing to increase the supply. Well wtf did they think would happen if we had a drought?


How about a desalination plant on the coast, and pump the water in?

[kpc2593]

"breaking news: hundreds of people stop at their local walmarts, for......bottled water....."

:ninja:

[Sledlude]

mussel

[Nevea]

i live by the lake and it is really really low. its terrible

[Leadfoot_mf]

well if the stupidity from this thread is any indication, then it is no wonder we are running out of water...

god damn you guys are stupid.

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well if the stupidity from this thread is any indication, then it is no wonder we are running out of water...

god damn you guys are stupid.

enlighten us

[Thighs]

animals < humans allllll day.

who the hell cares about a damn mussel? when we cant take showers youre gonna ***** too...

[Brut]

Damn that sucks well i am moving to Cali on the first sooooo... have fun with this problem?

[ATK_Designs]

Let's get some hot sauce and the problem will be solved. :yumyum:

No Fish/oysters, no need to pump water.

[Psycho]

THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!

[Leadfoot_mf]

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/10/17/waterbillb1017.html?cxntlid=inform

[Jimmy B]

i live a mile from the lake, and its SUX how it is.. you barley can enjoy it with a boat, you have to watch for the bottom, stumps, rocks, etc now.. no wakeboarding, unless you deal with wakes, and if you fall, you face the danger of hitting the bottom!

they really need to do somethign!!!

its funny how many boats are sitting 20 feet from the water in dirt.. lol

[§treet_§peed]

check this right.. people say animals first i say those phucers can survive without our help after alll they have been here way longer than us so they will be good.. i don't kno how long i and many others could survive with pepole who rarlely take showers anyways not even having a cance to take on at all.. STINKKy FAT ASSES FTL..

[Smittie61984]

You know the property owners at Lanke Oconee are loving this. One is Lake Oconee will never go dry(Unless we go into some sort of mega thousand year drought). The reason is Lake Oconee and Lake Sinclair provide the water for a Nuclear Powerplant in South Georgia. It's why it always stays full. They wanted to release a lot of water a while ago to save a woodpecker or something like that. But the Nuclear Scientists looked at the enviromentalists and basically said that without this water the nuclear reactor will go your bird will die anyways.

So for the Lake Oconee people(Which is where everyone is moving to now who wants a lake house) their property value is going to skyrocket even higher.

I also don't think Lanier is going to go go dry to the point that you have nothing but the Chattahoochie runing through it. But to a point where the dam can't use the water to make power or take up water. Just let the hooch flow I think.

[itsjustdee]

i wonder how many dead bodies are in lake lanier or how many cars...lol

[Stormhammer]

Just let the hooch flow I think.

this made me lol

[Jimmy B]

i wonder how many dead bodies are in lake lanier or how many cars...lol

dee, you REALLY dont want to know.. especially if you ever swim in there.. i do at least a few times a week in the summer, and everytime it crosses my mind, i dont stay in the watter to long.. lol
and try not to fall on the wakeboard eather!!

[NEONRACER]

This problem has nothing to do with mussles, gulf Sturgeon or any other living species. Florida has been fighting in court for 10+ years to get GA to increse water flow on the hooch. They lost every case they brought before the court until they used the endangered species defense. Due to federal law GA was required to supply the river system with more water. They used the mussles and gulf sturgeon as an excuse.

They needed the higher water level to float barges farther up river and to supply a power plant just below lake seminole with more water. They did not want to invest the money to extend the water intake pipes for the coal burning power plant. They just figure out a way to raise the water and not spend the milions of dollors on the upgrades.

This is not a new issue but Florida finally won the battle. Everyone blames the Corps of Engineers but they have their hands tied by federal law. The environmentalists are the real bad guys here. This problem also affects Lake West Point as well. Hopefully they will pull the exemption on car washes and shut them down during this crisis. What people aren't talking about is the long term affects this will have a Lanier. The water level has been lower then this before by almost 5 feet. The difference is we did not have the processed water being dumped into Lanier. At some point in the near future the ratio of clean water to processed water will no longer be safe to drink. Depending on how long this lasts this ratio will only get worse.

The environmentalists say we can lose the Surgeon or mussles which really have not use as far as food goes. What about the damage this low water will do the fish in Lake Lanier and West Point? During the last drought the largemouth bass population took a big hurting because it spawning habitat was high and dry. Now we have even lower water levels and the increase polution into the lake. Nobody can say what is going to happen to any of the fih species inthe lake. Again this was never aobut the endangered species, they were just the means of for Florida to get what they want.

[RandomGuy]

holy **** heres the fish theyre trying to save http://www.canyonpinesrv.com/cprv/images/sturgeon.jpg

[Kyle]

You know the property owners at Lanke Oconee are loving this. One is Lake Oconee will never go dry(Unless we go into some sort of mega thousand year drought). The reason is Lake Oconee and Lake Sinclair provide the water for a Nuclear Powerplant in South Georgia. It's why it always stays full. They wanted to release a lot of water a while ago to save a woodpecker or something like that. But the Nuclear Scientists looked at the enviromentalists and basically said that without this water the nuclear reactor will go your bird will die anyways.

So for the Lake Oconee people(Which is where everyone is moving to now who wants a lake house) their property value is going to skyrocket even higher.

I also don't think Lanier is going to go go dry to the point that you have nothing but the Chattahoochie runing through it. But to a point where the dam can't use the water to make power or take up water. Just let the hooch flow I think.

I live on Oconee. But like I said the water is a little down right now. I don't want Lanier people on the lake, because they actually live on the lake, whereas over 50% of the ppl on oconee visit their lake houses once every few months, so the lake is always empty.

[Crazy Asian]

i heard there's a abandoned town in the middle of lake lanier. Sounds freaky.

[RandomGuy]

i heard there's a abandoned town in the middle of lake lanier. Sounds freaky.
lol in a week or so we can probably walk across the lake to it LOL

[Stormhammer]

i heard there's a abandoned town in the middle of lake lanier. Sounds freaky.

yup, before the engineer corp built lake lanier and filled it there used to be a lake, town was disbanded, lake was built and filled ( FYI - lake lanier is man made )

[Crazy Asian]

DUDE RANDOM WE SOHULD SO DO IT!!!

[Jimmy B]

i heard there's a abandoned town in the middle of lake lanier. Sounds freaky.

accually there are 3 towns, remember in the 30', 40's towns were alot smaller than they are now..

there is still buildings, town hall, stop signs, even the high school staium is still up.

all they did was relocate the cemetery, and agbout 30-75 feet from where the lake was "slated to stop" they cust and buldozed trees.

[§treet_§peed]

actually that fish a a GNAR and they are in lake lanier they eat meat

[§treet_§peed]

did you know that 99x has a **** the mussels campaign going on right now?

[NEONRACER]

accually there are 3 towns, remember in the 30', 40's towns were alot smaller than they are now..

there is still buildings, town hall, stop signs, even the high school staium is still up.

all they did was relocate the cemetery, and agbout 30-75 feet from where the lake was "slated to stop" they cust and buldozed trees.



This is an urban legend. When the lake was built all wooden structures were torn down. There are very few buildings that remain at the bottom of Lanier. There is no football stadium at the bottom of this lake. Any tree that would stand higher then 30 feet from full pool was cut down to the 30 ft mark. There is still entire forests under the water. You can still find a few trees that stand above the water line. For some reason they left a cluster of trees out int he front of Young Deer creek that should be right at the surface now. All of the towns that were in the flood zone were very small. Cumming and Gainesville would of been where the high schools were. Another urban legend is the movie theatre at the bottom of the lake. Also there is no catfish the size of a VW in this lake either.

[Jimmy B]

Also there is no catfish the size of a VW in this lake either.

uh huh!!!

i caught one :D

[Sledlude]

This is an urban legend. When the lake was built all wooden structures were torn down. There are very few buildings that remain at the bottom of Lanier. There is no football stadium at the bottom of this lake. Any tree that would stand higher then 30 feet from full pool was cut down to the 30 ft mark. There is still entire forests under the water. You can still find a few trees that stand above the water line. For some reason they left a cluster of trees out int he front of Young Deer creek that should be right at the surface now. All of the towns that were in the flood zone were very small. Cumming and Gainesville would of been where the high schools were. Another urban legend is the movie theatre at the bottom of the lake. Also there is no catfish the size of a VW in this lake either.

damn. u sure do know your g'ville history

[NEONRACER]

uh huh!!!

i caught one :D


lol I heard this story growing up on the lake. You always hear of someone hooking into one of these fish then losing it in the "trees" by the damn. Funny thing is when they built the lake all of the trees within sight of the damn were cut down. lol

[SL65AMG]

Why is that? I've lost my brain cells from countless hangovers and other things. Lol

the water cycle

[§treet_§peed]

lol

[pure insanity]

This is an urban legend. When the lake was built all wooden structures were torn down. There are very few buildings that remain at the bottom of Lanier. There is no football stadium at the bottom of this lake. Any tree that would stand higher then 30 feet from full pool was cut down to the 30 ft mark. There is still entire forests under the water. You can still find a few trees that stand above the water line. For some reason they left a cluster of trees out int he front of Young Deer creek that should be right at the surface now. All of the towns that were in the flood zone were very small. Cumming and Gainesville would of been where the high schools were. Another urban legend is the movie theatre at the bottom of the lake. Also there is no catfish the size of a VW in this lake either.


how the **** does any of us know this to be true? somebody gotta have some old timer in the family that was around when lake lanier was built and actually saw the area. go ask them.

[Stormhammer]

^^^ because its all documented Grant lol

[pure insanity]

documents can all be forged up or just simply lied on. there has been way to many stories about all the stuff that is still down there for some of it not to be true.

[Smittie61984]

documents can all be forged up or just simply lied on. there has been way to many stories about all the stuff that is still down there for some of it not to be true.

The beauty to a conpsiracy theory is you can't ever debunk it becuase to prove so is nothing more than another conspiracy theory.

But the story of Catfish the size of Cars at the bottom of the dam is impossible. The problem is at the bottom of the dam there is no/very little oxygen in the water. Which means for a fish the size of a car that would require a vast amounts of oxygen there is none. Plus very little life down there period for a catfish to feed on.

I drove over Lake Lanier the other day. Yeah it's down but not to the degree everyone fears. I don't see a day where we see a big pit and nothing but the chattahoochie flowing. Though from my perspective that would be cool because I heard years ago there was good kayaking down there.

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^^^ because its all documented Grant lol

Subaru Prodrive P2 FTMFW! :goodjob:

/thread jack

[Magnus213]

We made the big news... the lake looks pathetic. : (

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071021/us_nm/weather_drought_georgia_dc

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apparently no one on Barrett parkway knows what waterban means. Last night i drive past starbucks. Sprinklers on blast. then drive past Kaufman tire going home from walmart, Sprinklers on blast. And i cant use a bucket of water to wash my car

[NEONRACER]

documents can all be forged up or just simply lied on. there has been way to many stories about all the stuff that is still down there for some of it not to be true.


Dude there was nothing but very small towns and farms in the area at the time. Everything made of wood is gone, they tore them down to re use the lumber. You still have foundations and brick structures since they could not float to the surface later. You can still find a few road beds and old damns for ponds.

This lake is not going to dry up, there is still plenty of water in the lake. If the lake continues to fall at the current treand in 90 days the lake will be down 44 feet. It will not fall to this level but this is just an example. There is still plenty of water as deep as 130+ feet right now so you will still have 100+ feet of water in much of the lake.

The damage is the level at which the damn cannot make power and at what level the processed water ratio gets out of hand. It is not going to dry up. Although it is getting to the point where we can no longer hold tournaments on the lake. There is a lot of other things to consider with the low water level. Marinas losing money, parks losing money, homeowners losing money. Boat prices are dropping and sales are ****. Guides will no longer be able to operate their business. The effects of this disaster reach further then people think.

[Ran]

There is a lot of other things to consider with the low water level. Marinas losing money, parks losing money, homeowners losing money. Boat prices are dropping and sales are ****. Guides will no longer be able to operate their business. The effects of this disaster reach further then people think.A local business owner on the lake said that business is down $20,000 from last year. Nobody wants to come and see the mud.

[§treet_§peed]

well we could all get drunk and take a piss in lake lanier

[On_Her_Face]

u just wasted ur 15k post.. good luck getting that one back

[RBS]

what did i miss? lake lanier is gonna go bye bye? .. wow

[JITB]

i take baths with a 24 pack of aquafina...i do my part!

[Kdanzig]

i heard there's a abandoned town in the middle of lake lanier. Sounds freaky.

Same with Allatoona so I hear

[YoungGun]

The lake is low enough on the North end now that some of the roads they covered have resurfaced. The main town is still over 100 feet under water though. The dam loses water if we get to 36' down I think because of a hump that runs in front of it. Also I think there are only a couple ramps on the entire lake that are still open. A lot of them are actually all the way out of the water.

On a lighter note. We moved our dock out so far I found my dad's cell phone that he lost in the lake last year next to the gangway.

[SleeperWRX]

We don't have snow capped mountains between us and the oceans. So the answer to the drought is......... build snow capped mountains between Atlanta and the Georgia coast. Why hasn't anyone though of it before?

[Smittie61984]

While riding to the mountains I drove across Buford Dam and took a couple of pics. It looked pretty down but still plenty of boats running around...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2110/1683278270_4f6cb5f529.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2264/1683278970_1862df1377.jpg?v=0

And while coming down GA60 towards Gainsville. Before I crossed the bridge I saw a cove area that was completely dry.

I guess if you are on the south side of the lake You'll be okay as long as you can move your dock and aren't on the end of the cove. Those up north are getting donkey punched.

[§treet_§peed]

thats right near the damn where water is gona be built u.. also the govner or bama is a fag and says that georgia has plenty of water and is just being stingy and should keep giving them more water even tho they have more than enough and do not have any type of watering bans