Metro region’s drought of leadership, vision
And then the rains came.
Good hard rains, day-long rains, that soaked into the earth and have filled streambeds and lakes, turning the North Georgia landscape a shade of green I haven’t seen in years. In fact, parched conditions had come to seem so normal that I had almost forgotten just how lush and wet spring can be in this part of the country.
Or, to express it in more practical terms, water levels at Lake Lanier are just 5 feet below full pool, rising 13 feet since Jan. 1.
However, this is just a temporary reprieve from Mother Nature, not a pardon. According to Aris Georgakakos, director of the Georgia Water Resources Institute at Georgia Tech, serious droughts recur here on a cycle of eight to 10 years. The question is how well we use that time.
The challenge is compounded by the fact that in a highly manipulated watershed such as the Chattahoochee, with dams up and down its course to the sea, droughts can be both natural and man-made.
There’s a very real danger that the effects of the next natural drought could be compounded by decisions made, and not made, by mankind.
In a courtroom in Jacksonville last month, U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson heard oral arguments on a crucial point in the ongoing “water war” between Georgia on one side and Alabama and Florida on the other. The question is whether Buford Dam and Lake Lanier were built in part to provide water to metro Atlanta, or whether that purpose merely evolved over time without congressional approval.
I’ve read the extensive briefs filed by both parties and followed accounts of oral arguments last month, and from a layman’s point of view I would not be surprised if Georgia loses that case. If that happens, the consequences would be serious.
If supplying water to metro Atlanta is not deemed an authorized purpose for Buford Dam, the Corps of Engineers cannot legally store water in Lake Lanier to protect metro Atlanta against the next drought. In effect, the next natural drought would be compounded by a man-made drought, leaving metro Atlanta high and dry.
So far, Georgia leaders haven’t dared contemplate what losing could mean. Among other things, it could shift both the battleground and the combatants in the ongoing water war. A fight that today pits Georgia against its neighboring states could easily turn into a civil war of sorts that pits Georgian against Georgian.
In the recent drought, farmers in the Flint River basin in central and southern Georgia consumed considerably more water irrigating crops than metro Atlantans consumed for municipal and industrial uses. If Georgia is forced to live with a certain allocation of water from the Chattahoochee/Flint/Appalachicola river basin, the water needs of rural Georgia could be pitted against those of their urban upstream neighbors, and that’s a fight no statewide politician would like to see.
Atlanta has been granted a reprieve in another sense as well, although it is at best a silver lining in a very dark cloud. For the moment, growth in metro Atlanta has slowed considerably thanks to the economy. A region that once produced new houses like Detroit produced automobiles now struggles with a Detroit-like recession, with major development companies and banks collapsing.
But like droughts, such things come in cycles. It’s easy to foresee a time a few years from now when development has picked up again and the natural drought cycle begins to reassert itself. And the question of what we have done to prepare ourselves will be all the more important.
In that light, the passivity of Georgia leadership to major challenges continues to confound me. In this case, the apparent strategy is to bet everything on the outcome of a legal fight in which victory is far from certain, with no fallback prepared.
We can only hope that vision and courage are cyclical phenomenon like the rain, and like the rain will appear when we most need them.
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I Rule You :-)/ You Whine :-(
June 2nd, 2009
8:07 am
I knew this was coming-
Rains just reprieve from drought By Jay Bookman
So when do we get a reprieve from the rains, Doctor Cloud?
Now that we got the scare mongering headline out of the way, let’s deal with the meat of the story, hidden within-
If supplying water to metro Atlanta is not deemed an authorized purpose for Buford Dam, the Corps of Engineers cannot legally store water in Lake Lanier to protect metro Atlanta against the next drought. In effect, the next natural drought would be compounded by a man-made drought, leaving metro Atlanta high and dry.-Urinal
Lake Lanier provides for controlled releases to satisfy the demands of the downstream uses, they have this ability because they store water. If Lanier were not there, the downstream flows would be subject to reductions due to drought conditions, one week the power generation plants could run, the next they may not have enough water. The mussels would be dry one week, massive flooding would wash them into the Atlantic the next.
Ditto on the City of Atlanta drinking water, they take their water from the Chattahoochee River downstream of Lanier, as does East Cobb.
Normally, more water flows into Lanier than what Atlanta or Cobb uses, the rest is stored to provide a reserve, hence the name reservoir.
Now here is the glitch with bookman’s logic. Even during the lowest flow drought conditions did the incoming flows to Lanier ever drop below what Atlanta or Cobb draw out. Regardless of whether Lanier was there or not, both municipalities would never have run out of water.
The reason the level in Lanier fell so much was due to a “faulty gauge” at Buford Dam, the moron government entity in charge of releases didn’t bother to look over the side of the dam to see how much water they were letting go until the bottom of Lanier show up and these dullards started wondering why. Only then, after all the water was gone, did they close the floodgates.
The water level in the lake continued to fall because of the discharges required for power generation and “mussels” downstream continued unabated. Had the discharges been lowered to provide only what was required by Cobb and Atlanta, the villains in the Pinko Horror Story that bookman propagates, THE LAKE WOULD HAVE FILLED BACK UP.
So, I ask, what are you talking about, bookman?
I Rule You :-)/ You Whine :-(
June 2nd, 2009
8:10 am
Hey, maybe we could make the spam filter into the blog view window, that way we could see all of the comments it eats?
Or run two blogs, one for uneaten comments and one for those that don’t pass muster?
jt
June 2nd, 2009
8:14 am
Instead of paying the lawyer fees, we could A)build desalination plants on the coast B)dig a canal from Mississipii C)Supply every Georgian resisdent with lifetime supply (cooking,drinking,and washing) with Sam’s water
Possibly ALL three.
Redneck Convert
June 2nd, 2009
8:20 am
Well, I don’t see a big problem here. If we go into another drought we just get the guvner and some preachers out on the front steps of the capital and do some praying for rain. It worked to get us out of this one, so I don’t see why it won’t work again.
Worry warts like Bookman can go around grinding their teeth all they want. But the GA Water Plan works, so there’s no big deal. If we just pray every week or so we might could avoid another drought all together.
I just hope this court case don’t ruin the fishing at Lake Lanier. Have a good day everybody.
jt
June 2nd, 2009
8:21 am
The money spent on the bottom-feeding tax-payer mooching lawyers to litigate this issue could supply every Georgian resident with a life-time supply of Sam’s Choice water.(cooking and washing).
jt
June 2nd, 2009
8:22 am
Or a few desalination plants on the coast.
@@
June 2nd, 2009
8:25 am
…and aside from conservation the solution is?, jay
a giant sponge.
A civil war over resources?
I think we’re already in it.
DB, Gwinnettian
June 2nd, 2009
8:26 am
Or a few desalination plants on the coast.
riiight. Because it’s not only cheap to run those plants, getting the water supply back inland, uphill a thousand feet in elevation, is a breeze!
Mrs. Godzilla
June 2nd, 2009
8:26 am
jt
I’m with you…..
Thirsty? How ’bout a cool, refreshing cup of seawater?
here:
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/drinkseawater.html
DB, Gwinnettian
June 2nd, 2009
8:26 am
An earlier request for Jay to provide a link to those briefs he read got eaten. I’ll try again. Links, Jay? So maybe some here might have a clue what this is really about?
AmVet
June 2nd, 2009
8:32 am
Another beautiful spring morning! What a great day to be alive!
Every day I try to remember to be thankful that I was fortunate enough to be born an American.
And wise and decent enough to be an anti-Republican. At least this abomination it has become.
The game is on. And the outcome looks clearer and clearer.
More young people than ever are voting. And taking on their civic responsibilities.
More people of color than ever are voting. And taking on their civic responsibilities.
More Republicans than ever are leaving that hijacked political party. Many forever.
More Americans than ever are repulsed by those bigots and buffoons who spill their hatred and bile – and yes, their fear – here and elsewhere daily.
Election after election they are getting their clocks cleaned. From sea to shining sea.
The cowering lunatic fringe, that stands for all those things that the best of America now repudiates – hateful and sometimes murderous intolerance, sham morality, and a deep irrational loathing for knowledge and progress – grows more desperate every day, every week, every month.
And now, at long last, even some of these ostriches can finally see the writing on the wall.
The writing that grows larger and more recognizable each day. The writing that they wish beyond wish was not there. But can neither erase or run away from.
We will take NO quarter. We will never stop. We will vanquish this evil. Even if takes the rest of our lives.
And that makes those of us who stand against these thugs and who fight for the best of American ideals, celebrate…
Bud Wiser
June 2nd, 2009
8:37 am
Have I been “whacked” again, Jay? I have made several comments that never see the light of day
BDAtlanta
June 2nd, 2009
8:37 am
Need to flood some more valleys in N. GA. pronto. Well, they should have done that 15-20 years ago but it’s not too late to start.
Road Scholar
June 2nd, 2009
8:38 am
Leadership? Go fish!
Land couldn’t be cheaper for acquisition for additional reservoirs. Conservation has gotten us out of the immediate hole; continued conservation is one key. But we need a comprehensive plan. Maybe Sonny could fund it?
Speaking of Sonny and loans, why can’t he provide accurate and up to date info on his loan and alledged payoff? You either paid it off or not. It’s a yes or no question, Sonny!(even if you are negotiating another loan)
BDAtlanta
June 2nd, 2009
8:39 am
Or, build de-salination plants off the GA coast. The facility should include water energy creation abilities that can power the desalination as well as the local region’s power needs.
WhoCares
June 2nd, 2009
8:39 am
So what’s to stop the city of Atlanta from taking it’s water out of the river below the dam?
I Rule You :-)/ You Whine :-(
June 2nd, 2009
8:43 am
I dropped the bomb on bookman but it languishes in the spam filter, how convenient.
Paul
June 2nd, 2009
8:44 am
Hey AmVet
I’ve been wondering as I’ve been reading your posts… now that the neocons in the ilk of the Perles of the world have gone off to who knows where… that farfarright of the Republican Party seems to be past hope of resurrection…
Just to liven things up I read your post and substituted “farfarLeft Democrats” for the farfarright Republican part. Much of it seems to work, too.
Says something about ideological extremes, eh?
Not really a debating point. Just a fun observation.
Hey, Jay, spam filter’s alive and well in the previous thread.
DB, Gwinnettian, I said ‘good morning’ down below. But I don’t want to go through last night’s reposting stuff that didn’t show, only to have it ALL show up later. So I’ll see if it does show up later.
Northern Songs Ltd
June 2nd, 2009
8:45 am
Or maybe we could mass produce that gizmo the International Space Station is using to convert urine and sweat into drinkable H2O.
TnGelding
June 2nd, 2009
8:52 am
The development simply has to stop, as does the immigration and baby-making. Mother Earth can’t support any more inhabitants. ZPG!
TnGelding
June 2nd, 2009
8:54 am
I Rule You
/ You Whine 
June 2nd, 2009
8:43 am
Are you sure it didn’t have a delayed detonator?
I happened to catch Hannity last night when he revealed he has two Escalades and loves them. His are hybirds. Are yours?
S GA dem
June 2nd, 2009
8:55 am
Amvet, should have saved that one for the fourth of July. Fight on!!
S GA dem
June 2nd, 2009
9:07 am
By the way, single payer health insurance. NOW!! That’s the only discussion we should be having until it’s a done deal. Health care costs are killing us all, whether you realize it or not. Pass it on.
RW-(the original)
June 2nd, 2009
9:14 am
However, this is just a temporary reprieve from Mother Nature, not a pardon. According to Aris Georgakakos, director of the Georgia Water Resources Institute at Georgia Tech, serious droughts recur here on a cycle of eight to 10 years.
You mean this isn’t an anomaly brought on by man made global warming? Blaspheme!
Dave R
June 2nd, 2009
9:25 am
I see that Ambling Veterinarian is coming off another schnapps-induced hangover this morning.
Maybe it would be nice to have a comment from him on – oh, I don’t know – WATER ISSUES maybe? But that would take independent thought, I suppose.
Jay has it mostly right. It is a failure of leadership – Republican AND Democrat. This has been going on longer than Perdue was in office, and long before the GOP took over the reins of government. And it has largely been ignored or minimized by everyone inside of state government. Surprisingly, more work has been done at the local level by counties surrounding Lake Lanier than has been done by the state; we’ll see if that work pays out in the future.
The biggest culprit continues to the the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Government with their Endangered Species Act. Using North Georgia’s only supply of drinking water to save 7 female sturgeons and some freshwater mussels is no justification for the millions of dollars spent to litigate this matter, nor is it justified to the loss of 50 years of environment established by the lake, nor the loss of property values incurred by those who once had lakefront property before the Feds mismanaged this resource.
Hopefully, the judge brought in (from Minnesota, I believe) who is schooled on water resource issues will finally make some sense out of this mess. The one from Alabama who consistently ruled against this state in favor of her own certainly did nothing to help matters.
AmVet
June 2nd, 2009
9:27 am
Paul and S GA dem, thanks.
Paul, the far left is a problem in this country. No doubt.
But at least their misguided incompetence is not nearly as deadly and vicious.
Over 4300 Americans KIA’d needlessly in Bush’s Botched War. Tens of thousands more maimed. Untold zillions of dollars squandered and given away to mercenaries like BlackWater and Dick Cheney’s Haliburton.
A planet under plunder from the eco-rapers, sanctioned by the flat-earth, science hating neo-cons, who make nary a peep about the 6 million tons (12,000,000,000 pounds) of greenhouse gases and carcinogens pumped into the dumping ground called our atmosphere by the US alone!.
18,000 Americans dead every year because the plutocrats deem them unworthy of care.
Millions facing financial ruin because the Wall Street criminals and their co-conspirators in government found integrity is just too old fashioned and not nearly profitable enough.
And who among them is calling for justice?
And where is our government of the people, by the people and for the people?
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June 2nd, 2009
9:30 am
[...] Jay Bookman takes note of metro Atlanta’s drought of leadership and vision. [...]
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June 2nd, 2009
9:35 am
I keep seein’ those Political Insider sign-ons. Are they some sort of stage hook?
Joey
June 2nd, 2009
9:37 am
Near Guntersville, Alabama there is a dam on the Tennessee River. The average hourly discharge through the dam is 13,000 cubic feet per second; or 97,000 gallons per second; or 8,000,000,000 (billion) gallons per day.
If metro Atlanta purchased and pumped 4 million gallons per day from the Tennessee River below Guntersville Resevior into Allatoona and Lanier, that would be less than 0.025% on the daily flow.
Guntersville Reservoir has a surface area of 68,000 acres. That is 1.8 billion gallons in the top 1 inch. Instantaneously removing 4 million gallons would remove one quarter of an inch of water from the surface of the lake. That is negligible. But the impact on the lake of removing 4 million over 24 hours could not even be measured.
A solution that hurts no one.
Redneck
June 2nd, 2009
9:39 am
S GA dem, how are the dems doing in S. Georgia? Do they have any elected dems in office yet? Last time I checked it was harder to find an elected dem in S Ga as it was to find was hens teeth.
Oh, as for socialized health care, that system in Canada will be bankrupt in 2 years unless the government raises their tax rates from 65% to 75%!!! Even with the high tax rate they pay the average wait time for a MRI in Toronto is 109 days. How long in St Marys Georgia, 48 hours if there is no rush and immediately if its an emergency!!!
Dave
June 2nd, 2009
9:43 am
In the long run clean water in America may become just as important to us as oil. I think it is important to start thinking of ways to conserve this valuable resource. Maybe we should rethink all these green lawns that consume so much water and maybe look for alternatives like rock gardens or maybe plants requiring less maintenance or water. No doubt America needs to do a better job in making sure our underwater aquifers are less contaminated. A lot of cancers today may come from water contamination.
mm
June 2nd, 2009
9:46 am
Redneck,
Good to see you quoting the lies about Canada’s healthcare system, just like a good little wingnut.
booger
June 2nd, 2009
9:58 am
Joey,
Good point, especially since most of the water in the Tennessee river originates in Georgia. The primary sources for the Tennessee are the Little Tennessee river in Rabun co., The Hiawassee River, The Nacoochee River, and the Toccoa river [called Occoee in Tenn.]
In fact except for the southern portion of Rabun County, practically all the water north of the Blue ridge divide in Ga. ens up in the Tennessee.
mm
June 2nd, 2009
10:03 am
Do you really expect the republicans running the southern states to come up with a solution to any problem? No, they will just point fingers and call each other names. And draw a line in the sand and dare anyone to cross it. Compromise is not a republican trait.
josef nix
June 2nd, 2009
10:04 am
Paul–good to see you here and top o’ the mornin’ to ye…the spam filter on the previous post finally let my apologies to you get through Its eating of one of your earlier posts caused me to misinterpret another of yours. Sorry.
sd
June 2nd, 2009
10:05 am
“It’s easy to foresee a time a few years from now when development has picked up again and the natural drought cycle begins to reassert itself”
It easy to see that and its unfortunate. We need leadership that is willing to forgo growth just for the sake of new property tax dollars. If you were like me, and lived next to a construction site that developers ran out on two years ago, you would see that constant growth is not needed.
What we need is leadership who can effectively manage a stagnant or shrinking population.
Take a look around and see all of the vacant commercial business locations. And then look at the new strip mall being built right down the road.
Why not put a moratorium on all new commercial propertie? By restricting the supply, you would drive the demand for the exisiting vacant spots. Do we really need another new Walmart? Aren’t there existing empty spaces that they could occupy instead?
All of this vacant space is going to hurt us.
Soothsayer
June 2nd, 2009
10:07 am
Hmmm . . . Let me see if I have this straight. We’re going to lay pipe from Guntersville dam across the mountains with pumps all along the way. Then, when it gets here we are going to purify it and send it out to metro Atlanta. How much would you be willing to pay for this water? I hope it’s a LOT more than what you are paying now.
williebkind
June 2nd, 2009
10:07 am
Well, I think Atlanta and its scourge should stop growing. Then maybe all the transplants will leave Georgia and go back to Chicago, Ny, and New Jersey. That would definately increase our supply of water.
Also, the unskilled will stop grouping up in a small area expecting the taxpayer to build them a home, give them food supplies, and water.
I know I am a product of public schools, but how many people do you think the area can support without some enormous external influence by man. There goes Georgia! Just like Florida! A retirement home for the north and rich.
josef nix
June 2nd, 2009
10:07 am
TnGelding–”The development simply has to stop, as does the immigration and baby-making. Mother Earth can’t support any more inhabitants. ZPG!”
Not to worry, M-ther N-ture knows what to do!
Swami Dave
June 2nd, 2009
10:09 am
For my good friend AmVet…….
Yes, it is aother beautiful spring morning and a great day to be alive!
We can all be thankful that we were fortunate enough to be born an American.
Personally, I am thankful that I am also wise and of enough awareness to have never fallen victim to the collectivist worldview – specifically the abomination that it has always been.
Yes, the game is on; the outcome to be decided by the efforts and abilities of those whom are engaged in it.
More young people than ever are voting and taking on their civic responsibilities. As more and more of them begin productive work and careers, the lies of dependence and redistribution will become more and more apparent leading them to question and, many times, reject the wonkish tripe spewed forth from the ivory towers of academia.
More people of color than ever are voting and taking on their civic responsibilities. As they continue to realize that collectivism simply replaces masters while the ideals of freedom and opportunity allow them to become masters of their own destiny, more of them will likewise recognize that fallacy of liberalism and it proponents.
Many Republicans are leaving the party, but, in most cases, it is that leaders of the party failed to implement and lead where they wanted to go. As many Republican leaders simply attempted to mark a slower course along the fall of our nation to collectivism instead of acting in opposition to it, supporters of freedom and opportunity withdrew their support and are looing to new leadership – in whatever party that might ultimately be.
More Americans than ever are repulsed by those thieves and liars who vent their bitterness and hatred against those who produce and achieve while attempting to ferment jealousy and bitterness to justify their policy goals of confiscation and theft.
Elections come and go, but the ideals that built this nation, freedom and opportunity, are timelessly imbued into the character of its citizenry. Opposition to these ideals is an unhill battle that must be engaged with dishonesty, division, and moral relativism as their only weapons.
The writing grows larger and more recognizable each day. The ideals of confiscation and redistribution are historic failures in every society they were tried and have never led any group to acheivement and prosperity. That writing, being the actual results of what they proclaim their good intentions, that they wish beyond wish was not there. But can neither erase or run away from.
We will take NO quarter. We will never stop. Freedom and opportunity work every time that they are tried. They work when you do. Proponents of those ideas will continue supporting and touting them even if takes the rest of our lives.
This makes those of us who stand against these liars and thieves; who fight for the best of American ideals, freedom and opportunity, celebrate each day as a gift. We also celebrate every American who throws off the shackles of dependence and collectivism to take control of their own destiny free of the unwanted / unneeded self-righteous attitudes of the collectivists who think they, better than we, know how best to lead our lives and provide for our families.
Truth, history, and common sense refute liberalism. Freedom and opportunity works every times its tried.
-SD
josef nix
June 2nd, 2009
10:10 am
Williebkind–you got sumpin’ agisnst domestic colonialism?
Doggone/GA
June 2nd, 2009
10:12 am
“Hmmm . . . Let me see if I have this straight. We’re going to lay pipe from Guntersville dam across the mountains with pumps all along the way”
If the target area for the water is lower than the source area, it’s perfectly possible to syphon the water over the mountains. No pumps needed. The ancient Romans did that all over their empire. Once you get the flow going, it just continues all on its own.
Bubba
June 2nd, 2009
10:14 am
How do you Cheneyphobes like being on the same side of the gay marriage issue as the Evil One?
Kamchak
June 2nd, 2009
10:15 am
“Not to worry, M-ther N-ture knows what to do!”
Another quote from Robert A. Heinlein:
“Natural laws have no pity.”
Soothsayer
June 2nd, 2009
10:18 am
In fact, the manufacturing crisis will never be overcome until decision-makers recognize a big root cause: the NAFTA-style trade agreements of the past decade that are actually designed to send manufacturing capacity and jobs overseas.
Mrs. Godzilla
June 2nd, 2009
10:24 am
Bubba
No Cheneyphobe I, how could anybody be afraid of Mr. 5 Deferrments?
Anyway, I’m glad we are on the same side of the gay marriage issue.
Obama continues to bring togther people on some of the issues.
How do you like that?
josef nix
June 2nd, 2009
10:26 am
Bubba–Boy is our “unmarried” household gettin’ a hoot out of this one! Now me, I’m a left wingnut liberal, but I’ll try and post here what didn’t get posted earlier on this topic.
I feel like Chief John Ross when, begging audience with Lincoln to beg his help in keeping the Cherokee Nation in the Union was ignored. He came back to Oklahoma and informed his people that the better deal was coming from Richmond and he would not stand in the way of the alliance forged between Tahlequah and Richmond.
I didn’t vote for Brother Barack because of his stance on Prop 8 citing his “faith” as cause. Then in case we missed it, he invited the hate monger preacher Warren to “bless” his administration. In case we’re slow learners (which, I must admit, we appear to be) he’s holding on to don’t ask don’t tell.
Bob Barr spoke out to repeal don’t ask don’t tell nearly two years before running for president, Now here comes Cheney, and this certainly ain’t in his political best interest.
I’d love to see Mary Cheney running for POTUS. See your African American and your Hispanic and raise you a dyke!
getalife
June 2nd, 2009
10:28 am
That is great news. Spent alot of time on that lake but Toledo Bend is much bigger.
Soothsayer
June 2nd, 2009
10:29 am
US corporations that offshore their production for US markets account for a larger share of the US trade deficit than does the OPEC energy deficit. Half or more of the US trade deficit with China consists of the offshored production of US firms. In 2006, the US trade deficit with China was $233 billion, half of which is $116.5 billion or $10 billion more than the US deficit with OPEC.
The other reason for the dollar’s demise is the ignorance and nonchalance of “libertarian free market free trade economists” about offshoring and the trade deficit.
There is a great deal to be said in behalf of free markets and free trade. However, for many economists free trade has become an ideology, and they have ceased to think.
Such economists have become insouciant shills for the offshoring interests that fund their research and institutes. Their interests are tied together with those of the offshoring corporations.
jt
June 2nd, 2009
10:36 am
DB- you commented
Or a few desalination plants on the coast.
riiight. Because it’s not only cheap to run those plants, getting the water supply back inland, uphill a thousand feet in elevation, is a breeze!
Bottled water is more expensive than gasoline. There are numerous pipelines for gas from the coast upland.
The desal plants would be used to alleviate SOUTH Georgian agriculture.
BUT MUNCH, respectfully.