DELICATE WATER ZONE · D0 — Abnormally dry over a member dam
Atlanta, Georgia
Metro Atlanta drinks mostly from Lake Lanier — the prize in a three-decade tri-state water war that reached the Supreme Court — with Allatoona carrying the northwest suburbs. Both are Corps reservoirs measured against conservation pools that guide curves lower every winter; a dry autumn here reads as a falling percent on two dials at once.
The reservoirs this zone drinks from
| Reservoir | % full | Storage | Elevation | 30-day trend | Drought at the dam |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Lanier GA | 89.7% | 1.75M af | 1,065.6 ft | -800 af/day | D0 — Abnormally dry |
| Lake Allatoona GA | 96.5% | 354,711 af | 838.9 ft | -732 af/day | D0 — Abnormally dry |
af = acre-feet; a dash means the measure is not published for that reservoir. Each name links to the reservoir's full page — gauge, record, snowpack and sources.
Zone prose is curated by this desk with its sourcing inline; the numbers are the member reservoirs' own operators', on the bases named on each reservoir's page. Back to the national desk.