In a recent letter, "Crisis
Over Shrinking Water Levels", Russell Hatfield stated, "when a permit is
received to do any excavation in the (Logan
Martin) lake bottom (and the permit now costs $250), there is an allowable
limit of only 300 cubic yards that can be removed. Why is this not virtually
unlimited?"
To many, the establishment of an allowable limit of
lake bottom removal(or deposit thereto) of a trifling, insignificant 300 cubic
yards of dirt in a lake of four hundred forty million (440,924,000) cubic yards
of water, is inexplicable.
On an average day, Alabama Power Company
passes over it's Logan Martin Dam, over ninety five million (95,999,904) cubic
yards of water - plus some lakeside owner's measly allowable water equivalent of
three hundred (300) cubic yards of dirt that day.
Unlike appropriate provisions established for the
control of major excavation projects that are of a magnitude that might endanger
the lake and river environment, the "Karnacial" hand-picked, minuscule allowable
limit of only 300 cubic yards of excavation is of no possible redeeming
calculable value to the power company, to the community or to the
environment.
Conversely, there are damaging consequences, the
major one being the pointless damage to Alabama Power Company
goodwill.
Armond "Si" Simmons
Pell City, AL 35128
104 Wadsworth Lane
205 338 7378