Army Corp of Engineers

Apparently, the Corps has a hard time understanding water. It seems it's either too much water or not enough:

State Fights To Stop Water Releases From Lanier
POSTED: 6:53 am EDT June 21, 2006
ATLANTA -- The state plans to ask a federal judge today for a restraining order to limit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for draining excessive amounts of water from reservoirs.
Water from lakes along the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River system has been sent downstream to Florida to protect endangered sturgeon and mussels. The Corps acknowledged over the weekend that a faulty gauge at Lake Lanier had allowed 22 billion gallons to be released by mistake.
Carol Couch, director of Georgia's Environmental Protection Division, said the amount of water mistakenly drained would have been enough to support the city of Atlanta for 118 days.
Governor Perdue says the Corps has a responsibility to properly manage the river system, and they have failed. He said talks with the Corps had been fruitless.
A legal complaint filed late yesterday in federal court called the Corps' operating plan "invalid because it involves the release of substantially more water than is prudent."
Pat Robbins, spokesman for the Corps of Engineers' Mobile District, said he could not comment.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press.

According to the story on WSBTV (CBS channel 9), the gauge in question was replaced a couple of months(?) ago, and has never been calibrated, inspite of repeated calls to please come and fix it. Parts of lake are about 5 ft below where they should be, leaving drying mud and dead shell fish.

Maybe if they exchanged this district with the district that oversaw New Orleans' levees things would even out.