Call or email your congressman and Col. Edward Kertis of the Corps and ask one simple question (addresses and phone numbers are listed on saveourlakesnow.org).
WHY NOT GO TO 3600 CFS AT LAKE THURMOND NOW?
A formal request was made to the Corps to decrease releases from Lake Thurmond to 3600cfs anytime the lake is 2ft below full pool. To date the Corps is refusing to make this change and they have given no reason for this refusal. Furthermore our congressmen are being misled with imaginary complicated problems related to river flows.
The issue is simple and straight forward. Lake residents and businesses can not afford for the lakes to drop 10ft below full pool because it is economically devastating to stakeholders around the lakes. Decreasing release rates from Thurmond to 3600cfs prevents this happening. At the same time all stakeholders along the Savannah River have indicated in letters to the Corps that 3600cfs is adequate to meet their needs. And keeping the lakes from dropping too low actually protects stakeholders along the Savannah River from the possibility of losing adequate river flows. So repeating, we need to ask our congressmen and the Corps why not go to 3600cfs now?
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