Recent comments and the back and forth with the Corps on their posting, Balancing the Basin, are illuminating.
Comment:
When fish and wildlife or water quality or water supply are threatened the Corps takes immediate steps to protect them. But when lake levels drop precipitously and the recreational infrastructure is threatened the Corps makes no effort to protect recreation.
Response:
The Corps responded that the comment was erroneous because they never make any changes from the guidelines in their water manual.
Just addressing that one back and forth we can see the Corps blindly follows the water manual regardless of what it may do to recreation. "I was just following orders" is an old and very lame excuse. To an objective bystander the obvious thing to do is to get the orders changed if they are doing damages to someone. Apparently it has never occurred to the Corps that all they would have to do is discuss changes they see are needed with Congress and the manual could be changed.
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