I may have missed a thread, but late last year and earlier this year they were mentioning Lanier and other lakes being critically low.
We've recovered fairly well this year in some of our lakes out here, but how did y'all fair around Atlanta and others?

we have not recovered at some 16ft under full pool and only about four ramps open for trailers.

Finally they have dredged some areas but people are running aground all the time.

The hurricanes that were supposed to spin a couple of rounds around Georgia never came ...................

Still dancing the rain dances

As P&S said, Lanier, as well as Clarks Hill (AKA Thurmond) and Hartwell, did not recover too well. Allatoona did OK. Our hang-out, West Point actually has been above typical summer pool. I'm not sure why but think its because Lanier has stayed so low they kept West Point up to maintain total system reserve. I also think the required release to FL was less and they did get rain reducing need for releases from upstream.

Our local ponds seemed to be mixed. Some have recovered well while others remain very low. Guess it just depends on its watershed and where the rain we got landed.

Of course, the GA Power lakes stayed pretty constant at full pool.

Lake Norman which is just north of Charlotte, NC which is near the NC/SC border recovered amazingly well. We have had some good solid rains, though recently Hurricane Hanna managed to miss us. It did dump a lot of rain east of us and in VA. Our area is still in a drought as groundwater levels have not recharged, but the Lake Norman water levels are fine and have been all summer. LKN has a nuke plant on it so its one of the last to go down of the series of lakes on the Catawba river.

http://www.duke-energy.com/lakes/levels/lake-norman.asp?lake=lake-norman

I know Florida got rain, as my parents tell me that the Winter Haven Chain of Lakes is useable again, and you can get from lake to lake in the canals.

Best of luck to Georgia boys. Get some excavators and backhoes and head toward the Mississippi River around St. Louis. The Illinois River is sending it a bunch of water. If you dig a ditch real fast, you could have some of it!

Alabama had a decent spring and early summer as far as rain. It's talied off some lately. Most lakes got up to there normal summer levels or at least close for the first time in a few years. Groundwater levels are still below normal I think.

I found the bottom of Lake Hartwell a month or so ago. It is now down almost 15'. This link provides a nice graphical representation of lake level and rainfall. (Scroll down and it takes a few seconds to load.)

Note this quote from the USGS

I don't think they want any of our chocolate pudding-lookin' water.

Unless you all want Chicago's toilet water?

They let 90 billion gallons out last week. Enjoy.

Actually guys, they have done a study that shows that there is a current on the bottom of the Sanitary canal (or which ever one they made to reverse the flow of the Chicago River away from Lake Michigan) that flows towards the lake, not down to the Illinois River. But regardless, mother nature, and our water treatment plants do a great job of filtering out the not-so-nice stuff in the river. I'll go boating, and get in the water, just as soon as they open the river up to recreational boats!

And if they dug a ditch from St Louis to Atlanta, our dirty brown water would be pretty filtered by the time it got there. It might even turn the color of Georgia red clay?!