More Lake Lanier water to be released
Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 9:07 p.m.
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(AP) -- Winter rains have raised Lake Lanier to its highest level since August 2007 and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to release additional water down the
Chattahoochee River.
The lake, which supplies much of the Atlanta area's drinking water, was within eight feet of its full pool on Thursday at 1,063 feet. Florida and Alabama opposed the corps' decision last year to reduce releases from November through April 30. Georgia Environmental Protection Division Director Carol Couch, who previously requested the reduced releases, did not make such a request this time.
She said sending less water down the river in May as the weather gets warmer could harm the trout population.
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