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	Name:	LifeTime Laker -
	Subject:	Water Problems
	Date:	9/21/2007 11:12:17 AM

Yes that is exactly the long term problem. I posted those because they are about what is happened today. The 'water wars' are supposedly taking on the long term issues. If memory serves me, one of the issues that started the whole thing was GA wanting to build a dam on the Tallapoosa as a source of potable water for ATL. The problem is that no water would be returning to the Tpoosa. That and the very small tributaries in the area would not be able to produce enough to provide both ATL and downstream flows.

But at the same time, many naysayers were screaming when APCO started building Harris Dam. They claimed that Martin would 'never be full again'. Well 25 years has proven them wrong. I can't attest to this, but I have been told by someone whom I have the highest respect for, that the engineering and permits etc. exist to build ANOTHER dam on the Tpoosa. This one would be at Horseshoe Bend.