Good News for Lake Allatoona

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Good News for Lake Allatoona

While Lake Lanier continues to struggle, Lake Allatoona has been refilling during the winter.

This good news comes because Lake Allatoona is many times smaller than Lake Lanier when it’s full, but its drainage area into it is just a little bit larger than Lake Lanier.

"So, all things considered if Allatoona’s drainage basin and Lanier’s drainage basin got the same amount of rainfall people would notice Allatoona’s level coming up a lot quicker than Lanier’s,” said Mark Williams with the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

It is still difficult to tell whether the lake will be ready when the heavy demand of the summer season begins is really hard to say right now. However, more rainstorms that bring one or two inches of rain will start to refill Allatoona quickly.

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