Lake Allatoona level down nearly six feet

ACWORTH - Water levels at Lake Allatoona are more than five and a half feet below its summer pool due to drought through out the lake&#39;s 1,000 square foot watershed. <br> <br> ``It has been extremely dry this summer and it took a turn for the worst in August,&#39;&#39; said Memphis Vaughan, acting chief water manager for the Mobile District of the Corps of Engineers, which manages Lake Allatoona. <br> <br> The Corps, however, is releasing water from the lake for about three hours each day to maintain downstream flows for Rome&#39;s water system, water withdrawals from Georgia Power&#39;s Plant Bowen and Plant Hammond and other industrial uses further downstream.

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