The climatologists seem to be working hard. But what about the engineers who are supposed to protect recreation along with a number of other responsibilities? The current drought plan has destroyed recreation repeatedly since 2002 and the engineers with the corps have yet to utilize the experience gained from those failures to optimize the drought plan. The studies mentioned repeatedly cannot add anything to the experience gained from repeated lengthy operation at 3600 cfs regarding effects of operating at this release level. From an engineering standpoint there is ample data for modifying the drought plan safely. Examples of modifications needed are stop releases above 3600cfs when lake lavels cannot be maintained at full pool and stop releases to the river when rains below Thurmond dam are supplying adeqate water for downstream interests. With the expertise the corp hydrologists have i feel sure even further improvements can be made without doing damage downstream. (posted by Jerry Clontz on 1/27)
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