Lake Level Warning and Expectations

Alcoa just sent out an email warning that the lake was going below 3 feet down. We appreciate the warning, but I want to relieve some anxiety with information I just received from Alcoa.

Evidently there is only one generator running at Tuckertown, so that limits the flow down from High Rock through Tuckertown to Badin unless they spill water (bypassing the generators) -- something they understandably don't want to do. But they expect the river flow to increase in the next few days with more rain in the mountains and so bring the lake back up, even if they have to spill through Tuckertown.

So the lake was down over the holiday weekend, but we don't expect a repeat of the summer of 2008. We expect the lake to come back up.

...........................Garry