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Name:	LOCOonWater -	Reply
Subject:	Let it fill up
Date:	1/1/2009 9:49:54 AM

Unless I'm wrong the lake is design to operate at 510. So why can't APC let the lake fill up, after all they have never had a problem with flooding or having the ability to control flooding. All you had to do to believe this was be around the past three years. APC has shown they have the ability to suck that lake dry in no time at all. The fact that they are pumping it down as much as what they have on schedule is ridiculous. The same people calling the shots at APC must be kin to the same people on wall street, all of them are idiots.

Name:	Mo -	Reply
Subject:	Let it fill up
Date:	1/1/2009 7:50:21 PM

What happens when we get another rain like a few weeks ago and the lake comes up another 7 to 9 feet. Due to downstream flooding they can not release water whenever they want to.
With the heavy rains they have to hold the water.

Also APC does not dictate all of the water releases. The Army Corp of Eng is the main controller of water releases. When the river downstream gets low, they require releases to keep the river level up for the barge traffic on the river.

Mofshin

Name:	LOCOonWater -	Reply
Subject:	Let it fill up
Date:	1/1/2009 9:02:46 PM

The flood level of 522 has never been reached since the lake was built. The rains we got a few weeks ago if it happened again would sill be way below the flood level. As far as the army corps of engineers goes that story does not hold water, after all during the summer months the past couple of years APC has exceeded the amount of water release needed to sustain navigational needs on the down stream rivers. The massive releases have been and will always be to cool Gorgas until APC is forced to stop this abuse and do what it should have done when it built Gorgas, years after the lake was built, and install cooling towers.

Name:	waterph -	Reply
Subject:	Let it fill up
Date:	1/2/2009 8:10:34 PM

I continue to be amazed at the logic of some on this forum. To post a comment that the Corp of Engineers is responsible for the majority of the shift in water level on Smith Lake is beyond logic.

I'm glad to see a number of members of this forum refute comments of this type. I hope tthat APC is listening to the folks on Smith Lake and is considering that this is not a fight by a few individuals who have been labeled as Developers but an uprising by the populous on Smith Lake and the counties of Walker, Winston, and Cullman.

TVA was comfortabale with the impoundment systems at the Kingston Plant for years. Now that millions of gallons of sludge has been released, there exists a major environmental release with thousands of acres being condemned. What is APC planning to do at its coal fired plants like Gorgas? Will they continue to do only that that is required (as with cooling towers at Gorgas) and continue to wait on agencies such as FERC to prod them for change.

I suspect that battle plans are already being formulated by the various environmental and government agencies (including TVA) for legislation to prevent occurences of this magnitude in the future. Even TVA is very sensitive to local governments and public opinion. Should county and city governments in the areas surrounging Smith Lake be more vocal?

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