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Lake Lanier is at 1075 feet above sea level
Posted on 12/30/15 at 11:44 am
Posted on 12/30/15 at 11:44 am
AT 1076, the Corps of Engineers will completely shut the lake down.
Can someone please point me to the unemployment line. I have always wanted some free money
TIA
Can someone please point me to the unemployment line. I have always wanted some free money
TIA
This post was edited on 12/30/15 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 12/30/15 at 11:52 am to LanierSpots
Is 1075 bad? Why would they shut it down?
Posted on 12/30/15 at 11:56 am to UMRealist
Because it's a man-made lake held up by by Buford Dam and is going to flood errything if it get too high.
To put it into perspective, Lake Allatoona (about 30 miles West of Lanier) underwent this change through 8 days of rain:
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To put it into perspective, Lake Allatoona (about 30 miles West of Lanier) underwent this change through 8 days of rain:
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This post was edited on 12/30/15 at 11:59 am
Posted on 12/30/15 at 12:04 pm to UMRealist
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Is 1075 bad? Why would they shut it down?
Yea, the lake is a man made reservoir. Ive been here 20 plus years and never remember seeing it more than 2 feet above full pool. Its 4 feet now. At 5 foot, its very dangerous.
The lake is a train wreck right now. I won't be going out for a few days anyway.. We also have a very small spillway which can not release a lot of water at once.
That plus the fact that there are 8 lakes below us that are all full makes it tough to get the level down quickly
Posted on 12/30/15 at 12:06 pm to LanierSpots
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AT 1066, the Corps of Engineers will completely shut the lake down.
Can someone please point me to the unemployment line. I have always wanted some free money
Is this a typo?
It is at 1075 now and I assume it is still rising due to the monsoon we've been getting this month. How could it possibly get to 1066 without washing everything away downstream?
ETA: I checked and flood pool is 1085 so I assume you meant either 1076 or 1086.
This post was edited on 12/30/15 at 12:08 pm
Posted on 12/30/15 at 12:27 pm to JustGetItRight
Yea, sorry about that. fixed
1075 now
1076 = Unemployment.
1075 now
1076 = Unemployment.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 1:03 pm to LanierSpots
Is thee really a lot of guide customers in the Christmas period of winter anyway?
Posted on 12/30/15 at 1:13 pm to Old Sarge
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Is thee really a lot of guide customers in the Christmas period of winter anyway?
I have had every single day booked since Thanksgiving. I also had this entire week, minus Friday and every day next week
Yes. The weather is warm and the fishing is good. Lake sucks arse
Water flooding the ramp parking lots now

Posted on 12/30/15 at 1:19 pm to Old Sarge
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Is thee really a lot of guide customers in the Christmas period of winter anyway?
I can't answer for Lanier, but back when I actually had time to go fishing a lot late November & December was one of my favorite times to fish.
Weather's usually pretty good and the bass tend to concentrate. Find them and you can catch them until you just get tired of it.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 2:12 pm to LanierSpots
I was there for a few days over Christmas. A lot of docks were swimming.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 2:36 pm to LanierSpots
Just open up the dam and send that shite south. Alabama and Florida always bitch that Georgia holds onto too much water anyway. Give it back.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 2:40 pm to LanierSpots
Hope it trends toward employment bud 

Posted on 12/30/15 at 3:41 pm to LanierSpots
I remember when it looked like this:


This post was edited on 12/30/15 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 12/30/15 at 5:39 pm to Pavoloco83
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Alabama and Florida always bitch that Georgia holds onto too much water anyway. Give it back.
You wanted the water. Keep it bitch!
Posted on 12/30/15 at 5:42 pm to Kentucker
I live right next to there. Haven't seen it this full in probably 15 years.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 6:29 pm to Kentucker
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I remember when it looked like this:
I do as well. And fishing was never better. It was actually unreal.
I had a run of 36 days where I did guide trips in November through December where my clients caught 100 fish in a day. The day it got broken, they only caught 87. Disappointment.

Posted on 12/30/15 at 6:31 pm to KTownRebel
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I live right next to there. Haven't seen it this full in probably 15 years.
The lake is at record levels. Never been this high. It is now 4.10 feet above full pool. Crazy
Im going fishing in the morning. Half day trip. We will see what happens
Posted on 12/30/15 at 6:37 pm to LanierSpots
State of MS just cancelled "legal" deer hunting around the river and parts of delta due to floods as well.
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