OT: Re: [ale] Water levels

[Greg Freemyer]

On Dec 31, 2007 2:41 PM, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > Yeap:
> >
> > Lanier: +.21 feet yesterday
> > West Point: +.8 feet yesterday
> > George: +.97 feet yesterday
> >
> > So a 1.98 foot cumulative addition yesterday
> Only if all three lakes have the same area and similar shore slope
> geometry.

Lanier and George are both around 40,000 Acres at current lake levels.
 Slope wont matter too much for a few vertical feet.  ie. (for my off
the cuff calculations, 40,000 acres == 41,000 acres)

West Point is smaller, but not that much smaller.

The graphs and charts are all there to more precisely figure out the
total acre-feet capacity of the 3 lakes at each depth, then to add
them up appropriately.  Then you would need to figure how many
acre-feet of water corresponds to 3.1 Billion Gallons * 7 Days to
figure out the weekly draw required by the Apalachicola Bay.

I'm too lazy to do it, but even the simple math I'm doing is way
beyond what is being reported in the articles I've found.

Everyone wants to blame Atlanta, when in reality Atlanta is not the
issue.  It is the overwhelmingly huge amount of water required to be
sent to the Apalachicola Bay.  As the governor said: "this is not a
consumption based shortage".  And for once a politician seems to be
telling the truth.

Or maybe Southern Company is using huge amounts of water.   The daily
withdrawals made by their power plants are astounding, but I assume
they mostly just use the water to cool their systems, then return it
back to the river.  Effectively not consuming much water at all.

Greg
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