As unusually dry conditions drag on in Georgia and neighboring states, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun drought operations affecting dams along the Chattahoochee River, including Buford Dam on Lake Lanier.
The Corps has limited the amount of water it releases from Lanier for months, according to James Hathorn, Jr., chief of the water management section with the Corps of Engineers in Mobile, Alabama.
The agency has been releasing only enough to meet water supply needs for parts of metro Atlanta that rely on Lanier and to maintain water quality in the Chattahoochee…