Posted on 09/22/2009 6:18:33 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
This is of the, I believe, downtown connector at the Brookwood split..
So, does this end the drought?
Funny graphic! I clicked on the title thinking he’d actually made a bold statement, such as, “&*(&^^ lot of rain!”
Hey Kanye, comma up to dundalk and see some crackers losing all their sh!t and stuff cause obama don’t like white people
thass right
sarc
Certainly a drought ender, but without a doubt it will not end Atlanta's water woes. You simply cannot invite 6 million people to move to your area and do nothing to increase it's water supplies. You can't steal water from other states, either...
You can’t steal water from other states, either...
Absolutely..Georgia, Florida and Alabama have had an ongoing feud for years over water flow in the Chattahoochee..
Has the media been there 24+7?
Where is the National Guard?
Does Obama hate humans?
Georgia wants water from the Tennessee River, too. They've filed a law suit against Tennessee claiming the state boundaries were incorrectly drawn. Trouble is, this has already been litigated once and Georgia lost. I have thought for at least 20 years that the proposed high speed train between Chattanooga and Atlanta is nothing more than a method to create a corridor for a water line from the Tennessee River to Atlanta. There really isn't another valid reason to have this train corridor, other than a water line. There isn't a light rail anywhere in the country that survives by it's own merit and this one will be no different. I doubt the Corps of Engineers will allow water to be taken from the Tennessee River without something coming back to replace whatever is taken out. The only thing Atlanta could possibly send back is treated sewage. I seriously doubt the folks downstream would appreciate being in the receiving end of Atlanta's turds.
I'm a Georgia native and this hoohah has been going on for decades. Georgia knew since before Lake Lanier was even built that it was never supposed to be a primary water source for Atlanta and they agreed to it before the first spade of dirt was ever turned. The main purposes for Lanier was flood control and power generation. Recreation was third. The powers that be in Georgia have known this since the late 1950's.
-"Thanks, Ollie."
I’ve been here for 21 years and this is the absolute worst I’ve seen..I couldn’t believe 575 @ 92 was under 10 feet of water..amazing..
Wow. A lot of the interstates are closed today too. Sucks for me as my job involves driving all around town come rain or shine. The Ga Navigator website is fried from all the people trying to see the traffic situation. I would stress to anyone in Atlanta area who doesn’t need to drive today stay home! Treat it like a snow day and enjoy yourselves at home!
But does he like fish sticks?
But seriesly good luck down there. Looks like New Orleans. Maybe Obama will do a flyover.
...and George Bush hates black people.
Lanier at 100%? We were in Gainesville around June 1 and the lake looked ok, but the locals were really wanting some rain.
I am always suprised bt towns that have always relied on lakes and rivers for their water. Charlotte is another good example. When droughts hit they wring their hands and push conservation. I always wonder why they don’t do what areas do that never get much rainfall-DRILL WELLS!
Drilling wells is still not necessarily a good long-term answer. If too much water is removed (i.e., faster than it is recharged), you permanently damage the aquifer. This is particularly an issue in some places that use a lot of groundwater for crop irrigation.
Thought he’d been killed in a drive-by shooting................?
The most recent federal court decision was decisively in favor of Florida. This prompted Georgia to cast a covetous eye toward Tennessee’s water resources.
From what I've read south Georgia has a huge aquifer that is relatively untapped. Georgia could always tap into that aquifer or build more reservoirs and there's always desalinization with sea water from the coast. Desalinization is expensive, but doable and probably cheaper in the long run than all the litigation they have underway. Politicians prefer to take the litigation route, though. After all, most politicians are lawyers, not engineers. That explains a lot about the mess we find ourselves in when you think about it.....
Atlanta and Charlotte are in the Piedmont on crystalline rock. Not enough water there to make it worthwhile. But, we do get plentiful rainfall most years to make the building of reservoirs the only feasible method.
I've got a friend out in Texas who has been doing "rainwater harvesting" for about 25 years. He has a cistern in his basement and collects water off his roof for flushing toilets, watering the lawn, etc. It only takes minor changes to your plumbing to make a major difference in your public water source water usage.
Most rural homes and farms around Charlotte survive on well water. I believe it is extremely shortsighted to not augment the water supplied by the Catawba river. Rainfall recharges underground aquafiers just like it replenishs lakes and turning your back on an additional source of water is just plain dumb.
Atlanta is located in an area which is between ~850 and ~1200 ft ASL, and has [famous] clay and rock instead of a porous soil. So, when it rains heavily you get more runoff than folks from areas with “normal” soils might appreciate. Often times the rain will end well before the flooding peaks, due to the dendritic topography. As the water flows down those ridge slopes and aggregated in creeks, it leads to the Chattahoochee and then boom. I lived there for about 10 years and saw a lot of localized flooding (nothing like this) which was caused by inadequate planning (not enough pooling areas required for developments that hardened surfaces - e.g. parking lots, poor location/elevation of major roadways, etc.) Further inadequate planning continues in the lack of planning for additional north GA reservoirs to catch this runoff for use when drought conditions return. By dragging feet as Atlanta grows and the north metro area gets developed even further - it only makes land acquisition options (for reservoirs) more difficult/expensive.
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