MOBILE, Ala. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will make a decision "sometime next week" on a request from Georgia to reduce the flow of water through Buford Dam and out of Lake Lanier.
Spokesman Patrick Robbins notes that the state Department of Natural Resources has signed off on the state Environmental Protection Division's request to do just that.
"Their analysis (DNR's) has indicted that it would have no negative environmental impact or any other problems downstream."
Robbins tells Georgia News Network he thinks that Alabama and Florida, which are locked in a decades-old dispute with Georgia over water in Lanier, will understand the gravity of the situation.
"I think everybody understands that we're in a drought situation and the important thing when the forecast calls for that to possibly continue is to save as much water in the 'head lakes' as you can to provide flows when the situation worsens."
The level of the lake early Friday was 1058.23 or 12.77 feet below full pool. It has actually gone up about a third of a foot since Tuesday after rainfall across the Chattahoochee River Basin which has amounted to an inch or more in some places since then.
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