Weather forecasts aren't predicting rain in the region over the next two weeks, and more water is needed at Lake Seminole and Walter F. George.
So the corps will release additional water from the northern reservoirs to make up the water flow lost due to the lack of rain.
The announcement Friday means more water will be flowing through the basin that drains the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola and Flint rivers toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Much of eastern Alabama and central Georgia is either abnormally dry or in a drought.
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