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Water Levels Lowest Ever Tuesday, 21 June 2011 Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed have confirmed what farmers and outdoors enthusiasts have been saying for weeks: Levels on the region’s waterways have fallen to lows never before recorded. USGS height gauges on the Flint River showed the average depth of the river at 1.31 feet Friday, a record low. Discharge from the river was at 606 cubic feet per second. That number compares to a maximum output of 17,500 cfps in 1965 and a minimum average yearly output of 715 cfps in 2000. “Pretty much all of South Georgia is really suffering right now,” Brian McCallum, the assistant director of the USGS Georgia Water Science Center in Atlanta, said Friday. “If you look at the data from today you’ll see that all of the waterways in South Georgia set new record lows. -- Dr. Teri Hamlin North Region Agriculture Education Georgia Department of Education 204C Four Towers University of Georgia Athens, Ga 30602 706-552-4461 / 706-540-0032 [log in to unmask]