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Lake Lanier Evaporating in Summer Heat

Dry Lake Lanier DockUnfortunately it looks like the drought is reintensifying again

Lake Lanier, already at 14.4 feet below full and setting daily record low levels for this time of the year. The sun alone is evaporating more than two-tenths of an inch per day.


Every day 193.9 million gallons of water evaporate. By comparison, Gwinnett County withdrew an average of 74.2 million gallons a day from the lake in May, or less than half the amount that's disappearing in the sun's rays.
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June 27, 2008
64.12.116.6

did we all forget about the people who have paid huge moneys to buy waterfront and who continue to pay waterfront taxes and still have no water! there seems to be no interest or help for the people who are getting screwed on lake lanier. why hasnt anyone filed a class action suit for reimbursement and adjustment of waterfront taxes?

Dan
July 02, 2008
143.112.32.4

My waterfront property is completely unusable. I've owned it 6 years and it looks like this summer I will not be able to use it at all. I've read some predictions of 3 years, so I guess I might as well sell it and find something else.

Duckyboy
July 06, 2008
209.37.4.38

Thats the price you pay for water front property. lol

Lance
July 23, 2008
207.38.252.184

This is what the beginning effects of Global Warming look like! Ask the folks in the steppes of China, who have been driven off their farmland because of drought. Or Afghanistan, or all of the countries bordering the Caspian Sea.

Global Warming is greatly influenced by human activity and the carbon we emit into the atmosphere: There is just no serious debate in the scientific community about that.

I know you vote Republican, but can't we agree on this one issue? Screw big oil! We have to get serious about addressing global warming or...you'll continue to pay excess taxes on a only a MUD front property there on Lake Lanier. Enjoy!


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