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	Name:	waterph -
	Subject:	RRainfall Article
	Date:	8/2/2008 8:13:06 AM

You are correct in your number of 0.8 feet for week. Since June 1, 2008, when the level was 510 feet to August 1, the level has fallen to 502.6 feet or 7.4 feet. The time is 9 weeks for an average of 0.8 feet per week.

It is no longer a secret that the yearly level changes are primarily due to the needs of the Gorgas Plant to meet budgeted production rates. More electricity requires more tons of coal which requires more water at lower tempeeratures to condense the steam and return water back to the river below permit lspecifications. Cool water comes from the depths of Smith Lake in the summer months.

The consensus of many is that cooling towers would resolve this issue once and for all. Hopefully, FERC will come to this same conclusion when APC deliverers data from the modeling study in 45 days and will issue directives to APC to resolve the lake level fluctions with additions to Gorgas. The clock is still ticking.

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