AGREEMENTS WITH CORPS ARE INEFFECTIVE

We've been pleading with the Corps to provide protection to Recreation for the lakes of  the Savannah River Basin since the turn of the century.  It is time our leaders in congress and the various organizations that represent lake stakeholders recognize that they are dealing with an organization that has no intent on responding to our requests.  Although obvious measures exist that would prevent drastic loss in lake level, the Corps is adamant in refusing to change our drought plan. It is time we recognize the Corps is not friendly to our needs and they are not going to respond to simple requests for improving the drought plan.

For Example:

• We've asked for earlier reaction to losses in lake level but the Corps blindly allows our lakes to drop when there is no environmental or economic justification for their actions. 
• We've asked that the Corps recognize that the money saved by blindly following power production quotas is not justifiable when you look at the money lost to the recreational infrastructure from drastic drops in lake levels.  But the Corps refuses to react to common sense arguments.
• We've exposed all the misleading arguments used in the past to justify no change to the drought plan but to no avail.  They simply continue to hold to failed practices realizing they don't have to justify such behavior.

Making this short and sweet. It is no surprise that our lakes are now down over 5'.  We warned the Corps repeatedly that unless they changed what they were doing we would repeat the errors of the past. But the Corps refuses to protect our recreational infrastructure. It is not as if they didn't know what their actions would cause.  Said another way, logical discussion of the situation simply doesn't work.  It is time our leaders put their foot down and demand the changes we all know are needed.