Since we had those meetings a year or so back about an improved drought plan most folks probably are operating on the assumption that performance of the lakes during this drought will be better. Unfortunately that is not the case. The new plan is still not in effect and we still have no concrete date on when that will be. Meanwhile if this drought doesn't end soon we are headed for another reputation busting season of drastically low lake levels.
And as a reminder the Corps still has no responsibility for minimizing destruction of economics around the lakes (eg. real estate values, business income, tourism). We have two government entities to thank for all this. Your congressman could correct this immediately by adding economics to the Corps responsibilities and the corps could act on their own as engineers instead of procedure followers to manage the lakes responsibly.
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