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| Lake Lanier |
Lake Lanier is one of my favorite lakes because it is a lake that I live very near to and visit a lot. A lot of my friends live on this lake or have homes on this lake so I have spent many summers out on Lake Lanier. It is a reservoir in the northern part of Georgia. It was created by the completion of the Buford Dam (which is right by my house!) on the Chattahoochee River (which runs through my neighborhood) in 1956. It was named after the Poet Sidney Lanier. he lake encompasses 38,000 acres (150 km2) of water, and 692 miles (1,114 km) of shoreline at normal level. One of the main purposes of the lake is flood control down stream of the lake. Although there was a recent flooding incident in 2009. Lake Lanier receives approximately eight million visits per year and has a recreation economic impact of $5.5 billion. Lake levels have been impacted by the Tri-States Water Wars have been going on for 13+ years, without agreement between Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
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Over view of lake Lanier
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| Lake Lanier during the drought. |
A few summers ago Atlanta had a huge drought and it caused the water level to go down severely on Lake Lanier. It got so bad that we couldn’t go out in the boats and play water sports because it was so shallow. In some parts of the lake you could see old homes emerging from the water that were there in the 1950’s before the area was flooded by the creation of the lake.
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Before the drought and the during the drought on lake lanier.
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