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MythBuster
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Naive About Water Level
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6/20/2007 4:58:51 PM
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First, your numbers are only accurate if the banks of the respective lakes drop straight down. Think about a glass full of water, and a Petri dish (or a very, very shallow bowl) 2.5 times the size of the opening of that glass. If you remove an inch of water from the glass, the surface area of the water is virtually unchanged, but if you remove an equal amount of water from the Petri dish, the surface area is now greatly diminished. In other words, the effects of being a foot lower could be much, much worse on those smaller lakes, despite their surface area.
But ignore that, because that's not really the problem. Instead, let's assume that we now have that 2.5 feet of water that you think is so important. That would put the lake at about 483.5. When was the lake last at this level? The last week of May. And what were people doing at that time?
COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WATER LEVEL. AND BLAMING APCO FOR THEIR "MISMANAGEMENT."
In other words, things would be as they are now anyway.
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