Lake Lanier
This is because after years of severe drought, Lake Lanier is now overcapacity. And with downstream lakes also at capacity, there's no place to store the extra water.
Rob Holland is with the Army Corps of Engineers.
He says: “The only real alternative is to let the water flow down the river into the Gulf of Mexico…which has beneficial effects in places like Apalachicola and other places where they need fresh water and the estuary for the critters.”
Holland says any move by politicians to create a new reservoir to store excess water would take years to accomplish.
