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Cumming having to work hard to keep getting water from Lanier
November 11th, 2007

(via an e-mail from AWS reader David) There are a couple of interesting stories today in the Gainesville Times about how Cumming and Gainesville are having to make some changes in order to keep getting water from Lake Lanier.

Gainesville is in pretty good shape, with intakes that go “all the way down to the bottom of the lake”. They say their two major intakes can work as low as 1023 and 1024 feet. That’s not exactly the bottom of the lake, but it’s pretty far down.

Cumming has bigger problems, but they’re working through them. One of their major intakes is at 1053 ft., which was put there in the 70’s because “there was no historical data that indicated that the lake would go below the 1053 elevation.” I don’t know how low the lake will ultimately get, but I’m positive it’ll be below 1053 (it’s at 1053.98 today).

To combat this problem, they’ve extended the intake pipe by about 50 feet to help it reach deeper, and they say it can be extended further if they need to. You can read the full story for more information.
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can you hear the water rushing out of the Lake and the silence from any water coming in

disregarding prayer, what is plan B when the water runs out?