Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) drought : federal water management issues / Mary Lynne Corn [and five others] ; edited by Nicole T. Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corn, M. Lynne (Mary Lynne), 1946- author.

Contributor:

Carter, Nicole T., editor.

Series:

CRS report for Congress ; RL34326.

CRS report for Congress ; RL34326

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Droughts.

Water-supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (35 pages).

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, 2008.

Summary:

The first section of the report provides a brief introduction to the basin's water resources and issues, the current drought, and the Corps' proposal for reducing minimum flows for species to reduce the drawdown rate of federal reservoirs. [ ... ] The basin's federal dams control the releases to the rivers, thereby shaping the states' use of the water. [ ... ] Since the November 1 meeting of the governors, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have expressed concerns about the impacts of the reduced flows.23. [ ... ] That is, more water would be available in Lake Lanier and for release to the Chattahoochee River next year; because a significant amount of Metropolitan North Georgia's water withdrawals return to the ACF as return flows, the upper basin municipal and industrial users could withdrawal the water in the upper basin and have a portion be returned to meet the Apalachicola River's minimum flow requirem [ ... ] The discharge from the power plant is typically warmer than the water source, and increases in the surrounding water temperature could affect the ability of fish and other aquatic species to survive.

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