I am worried about the on-going drought in Georgia. What preparations has CCWSA made to assure an adequate supply of water for Cherokee County during drought events?
The raw water source for drinking water in Cherokee County is the Etowah River. As a response to drought events in the late 1980’s CCWSA undertook a project on behalf of the citizens of the county to build a drought contingency reservoir to fortify Cherokee County’s water supply against future drought events. In 2000 the Authority placed its Lathem Drought Contingency Reservoir into operation. This reservoir is used to supplement flow in the Etowah River when our withdrawals exceed 6.5 million gallons per day in 24 hours or 5.4 million gallons per day on a monthly average when the river flow at our Etowah River Water Treatment Facility falls to 192 cubic feet per second or less. During the drought of 2007 we released 1.447 billion gallons over the span of 115 release events (August 5 – December 16, 2007). Given the fact that we also return over 5 million gallons per day of highly treated reclaimed water from our wastewater treatment facilities to the Etowah River basin, our impact on t
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