Not sure whether this will ever see the light of day in view of all that the president has on his plate, but one of our members recently sent this email to the president concerning the way the Corps is managing our lakes.
The Corps of Engineers for the Savannah River Basin is holding back progress for the miles and miles of lake side properties and communities along the Savannah River which runs between Georgia and South Carolina from the blue ridge Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. We at Save Our Lakes Now are in a position to document this statement and answer any questions concerning this accusation. I personally am a Chemical Engineer from UVA and fully qualified to discuss why the Corps is failing to manage our lakes in a fashion consistent with Making America Great Again. As with Hillary and coal mining they are determined to hold back growth of this area for irrational reasons similar to the abuse of power practiced by the EPA.
I am a business owner and own a number of properties along Clarks Hill Lake (also known as Lake Thurmond) and have been destroyed from a business perspective by the overreach and irrational rules put in place by the Corps. Literally this area should be booming in a fashion similar to the Grand Strand of South Carolina but instead has been going backwards financially for over 25 years due to the ridiculous manner in which the Corps is managing the lakes. We have offered fair and balanced answers to the question of how to manage the lakes in a fashion that gives maximum benefit to both the areas around the lakes and the stakeholders along the river below the lakes. But the Corps refuses to listen. Furthermore our congressmen Jeff Duncan and Jodi Hice have proven totally ineffective in helping with this matter. This is due to too few voters along the lakes and an unwillingness to get involved and fight the Corps.
One quick scenario on what is happening: Our lakes are constantly down 10 feet and more which destroys real estate and business interests while the other lakes in this area which are managed by power companies are seldom down more than a foot or two. In addition to the destruction of real estate and business interests the Corps' insistence on releasing more water than is provided by rain is wasting billions of gallons of fresh water on a daily basis in that every drop of water released from the lakes goes directly to the ocean where it becomes totally unusable.
