Master Water Control Manual, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Alabama, Florida ...

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Mobile District
MASTER WATER CONTROL MANUAL
APALACHICOLA-CHATTAHOOCHEE-FLINT (ACF)
RIVER BASIN
ALABAMA, FLORIDA, GEORGIA
U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
MOBILE DISTRICT
MOBILE, ALABAMA
FEBRUARY 1958
REVISED XXX 2016
Final Draft Apalachicola–Chattahoochee–Flint River Basin Water Control Manual
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1 NOTICE TO USERS OF THIS MANUAL
2 Regulations specify that this Water Control Manual be published in a hard copy binder with
3 loose-leaf form and only those sections, or parts thereof requiring changes, will be revised and
4 printed. Therefore, this copy should be preserved in good condition so that inserts can be made to
5 keep the manual current. Changes to individual pages must carry the date of revision, which is the
6 Division’s approval date.
7 REGULATION ASSISTANCE PROCEDURES
8 If unusual conditions arise, the following contact information can be used:
9 • Mobile District Water Management Section Chief [phone] (office), [phone] (cell)
10 • Mobile District Water Management Branch Chief [phone] (office), [phone] (cell)
11 • Mobile District Engineering Division Chief [phone] (office), [phone] (cell)
12 • Mobile District Operations Division Chief [phone] (office), [phone] (cell)
13 • South Atlantic Division Senior Water Manager [phone] (office), [phone] (cell)
14 Individual projects can be reached at the following telephone numbers during normal duty hours:
15 • Buford Dam and Lake Sidney Lanier [phone]
16 • West Point Dam and Lake [phone]
17 • Walter F. George Lock and Dam and Lake [phone]
18 • George W. Andrews Lock and Dam and Lake George W. Andrews [phone]
19 • Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam and Lake Seminole [phone]
20 UNIT CONVERSION
21 This manual uses the U.S. Customary System of Units (English units). Exhibit A contains a
22 conversion table that can be used for common unit conversions and for unit conversion to the
23 metric system of units.
24 VERTICAL DATUM
25 All vertical data presented in this manual are referenced to the project's historical vertical
26 datum, National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29 or NGVD). It is the U.S. Army Corps
27 of Engineers (herein referred to as USACE or Corps) policy that the designed, constructed, and
28 maintained elevation grades of projects be reliably and accurately referenced to a consistent
29 nationwide framework, or vertical datum - i.e., the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) or
30 the National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON) maintained by the U.S. Department of
31 Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The current orthometric vertical
32 reference datum within the NSRS in the continental United States is the North American Vertical
33 Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). The current NWLON National Tidal Datum Epoch is 1983–2001. The
34 relationships among existing, constructed, or maintained project grades that are referenced to local
35 or superseded datums (e.g., NGVD29, MSL), the current NSRS, and/or hydraulic/tidal datums,
36 have been established per the requirements of Engineering Regulation 1110-2-8160 and in
37 accordance with the standards and procedures as outlined in Engineering Manual 1110-2-6056. A
38 Primary Project Control Point has been established at each of the five federal projects and linked
39 to the NSRS. Information on the Primary Project Control Point, for each project, and the
40 relationship between current and legacy datums are in Exhibit B of each project water control
41 manual appendix.
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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Page No.
3 TITLE PAGE i
4 ACF RIVER BASIN WITH USACE AND NON-USACE RESERVOIR PROJECTS ii
5 NOTICE TO USERS OF THIS MANUAL iii
6 REGULATION ASSISTANCE PROCEDURES iii
7 UNIT CONVERSION iii
8 VERTICAL DATUM iii
9 CONTENTS iv
10 PERTINENT DATA xiv
11 TEXT OF MANUAL 1-1
12 Paragraph No. Title Page No.
13 I - INTRODUCTION
14 1-01. Authorization 1-1
15 1-02. Purpose and Scope 1-2
16 1-03. Related Manuals and Reports 1-2
17 1-04. Project Owner 1-2
18 1-05. Operating Agency 1-3
19 1-06. Regulating Agencies 1-4
20 II - BASIN DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTERISTICS
21 2-01. General Characteristics 2-1
22 2-02. Topography 2-3
23 a. Chattahoochee River Basin 2-3
24 b. Flint River Basin 2-3
25 c. Apalachicola River Basin 2-3
26 2-03. Geology 2-3
27 a. The Blue Ridge Province 2-3
28 b. The Piedmont Province 2-4
29 c. The Fall Line 2-4
30 d. The Southeastern Plains and Southern Coastal Plain Province 2-5
31 2-04. Sediment 2-5
32 2-05. Climate 2-8
33 a. Temperature 2-8
34 b. Precipitation 2-9
35 2-06. Storms and Floods 2-15
36 a. General 2-15
37 b. Principal Storms 2-15
38 2-07. Runoff Characteristics 2-23
39 2-08. Water Quality 2-26
40 a. Lake Sidney Lanier 2-26
41 b. Chattahoochee River between Buford Dam and West Point Lake2-27
42 c. West Point Lake 2-27
43 d. Walter F. George Lake 2-28
44 e. Lake George W. Andrews 2-29
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3 f. Lake Seminole 2-29
4 g. Apalachicola River 2-30
5 2-09. Channel and Floodway Characteristics 2-30
6 a. Chattahoochee River 2-30
7 b. Flint River 2-31
8 c. Apalachicola River 2-32
9 2-10 Economic Data 2-32
10 2-11. Land Use 2-35
11 2-12. Water Use 2-36
12 III - GENERAL HISTORY OF BASIN
13 3-01. Authorization for Federal Development 3-1
14 3-02. Planning and Design 3-3
15 a. Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam 3-3
16 b. Buford Dam 3-3
17 c. Walter F. George and George W. Andrews Locks and Dams 3-4
18 d. West Point Dam 3-5
19 e. Navigation Channel 3-5
20 3-03. Construction of Federal Projects 3-5
21 3-04. Related Projects 3-5
22 3-05. Modifications to Regulations 3-6
23 a. Metropolitan Atlanta Population Growth 3-6
24 b. Tri-State Water Rights Litigation 3-6
25 c. Revised Interim Operating Plan 3-7
26 d. Navigation 3-8
27 e. Hydropower 3-8
28 f. Fish Spawn Operations 3-9
29 3-06. Principal Regulation Problems 3-9
30 a. Buford Dam 3-9
31 b. Head Limitations 3-9
32 IV - DESCRIPTION OF PROJECTS
33 4-01. Location 4-1
34 4-02. Purpose 4-1
35 4-03. Physical Components 4-1
36 4-04. Overview 4-1
37 a. Chattahoochee River 4-1
38 b. Flint River 4-2
39 c. Apalachicola River 4-3
40 4-05. Federal Dams 4-3
41 a. Buford Dam 4-3
42 b. West Point Dam 4-3
43 c. Walter F. George Lock and Dam 4-4
44 d. George W. Andrews Lock and Dam 4-5
45 e. Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam 4-6
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3 4-06. Non-Federal Dams 4-7
4 a. Habersham Mill Dam 4-7
5 b. Morgan Falls Dam 4-7
6 c. Langdale Dam 4-8
7 d. Riverview Dam 4-8
8 e. Bartletts Ferry Dam 4-9
9 f. Goat Rock Dam 4-10
10 g. Oliver Dam 4-10
11 h. North Highlands Dam 4-11
12 i. City Mills Dam 4-11
13 j. Eagle and Phenix Dam 4-12
14 k. Crisp County Dam 4-13
15 l. Flint River Dam 4-13
16 4-07. Real Estate Acquisition 4-14
17 4-08. Public Facilities 4-14
18 4-09. Economic Data 4-14
19 a. Population 4-14
20 b. Agriculture 4-15
21 c. Industry 4-15
22 d. Employment 4-16
23 e. Flood Damages 4-17
24 V - DATA COLLECTION AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
25 5-01. Hydrometeorological Stations 5-1
26 a. Facilities 5-1
27 b. Reporting 5-5
28 c. Maintenance 5-6
29 5-02. Water Quality Stations 5-6
30 5-03. Sediment Stations 5-6
31 5-04. Recording Hydrologic Data 5-6
32 5-05. Communication Network 5-7
33 5-06. Communication with Project 5-7
34 a. Regulating Office with Project Office 5-7
35 b. Between Project Office and Others 5-8
36 5-07. Project Reporting Instructions 5-8
37 5-08. Warnings 5-8
38 VI - SYSTEM HYDROLOGIC FORECASTS
39 6-01. General 6-1
40 a. Role of Corps 6-2
41 b. Role of Other Agencies 6-2
42 6-02. Flood Condition Forecasts 6-3
43 6-03. Conservation Purpose Forecasts 6-4
44 6-04. Long-Range Forecasts 6-4
45 6-05. Drought Forecasts 6-4
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