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Name:
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Eric
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Subject:
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FERC Requiring new model
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8/28/2008 6:08:59 PM
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I agree. The only thing that seems to be consistent about APC's explanation for low water levels are inconstencies.
I also read something not too long ago in the paper where someone from APC said the evaporation on the lake was unbelievable. My neighbor also said the same thing. I did a little search ont he subject and according to info I've read, the average evaporation rate is around 1/8" per day, higher in the summer and lower in the winter. There was an article about the evaporation rate at Lake Lanier being 2/10" per day, which some were arguing was a little high. Even if you assume 2/10" an inch per day, it would take 60 days for 1 foot of water to evaporate from the lake. The evaporation theory just doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I don't understand how the lake could fill up as fast as it did earlier in the year, when the ground was dry as bone, and not budge an inch when it rains in the summer and fall. Maybe there's some perfectly logical reason, but the answers that APC has (has not) provided don't hold (no pun intended) water.
I think most everyone just wants honest, defensible answers instead of what appears to be smoke and mirrors.
Also, if what SLISA says turns out to be true about Gorgus, it's highly repulsive to me that they would use this clean crystal clear water to facilitate the operation of one of the dirtiest, most polluting power producing plants in the nation.
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