{"id":247,"date":"2014-06-05T11:39:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=247"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:12:37","slug":"river-flows-decreasing-in-ne-georgia-more-extremes-occurring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/06\/river-flows-decreasing-in-ne-georgia-more-extremes-occurring\/","title":{"rendered":"River flows decreasing in NE Georgia; more extremes occurring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the Athens Banner Herald discussed long-term changes in stream flow across northeast Georgia.\u00a0 In the past 50 years, the average stream flow in the Oconee River and other rivers in Georgia has declined about 20 percent.\u00a0 At the same time, more extreme rainfalls are causing localized flooding, with longer dry spells in between.\u00a0 Some of this change is due to changes in rainfall over time and some is due to changes in land use such as urbanization which paves over land and makes it impermeable to precipitation, increasing runoff.\u00a0 If you depend on stream flow from a nearby river to irrigate or fill a farm pond, or if you have low-lying areas that are prone to flooding, you will need to consider how these changes might impact your farm&#8217;s operations.\u00a0 You can read the article by clicking<a title=\"River flow changing over time\" href=\"https:\/\/onlineathens.com\/uga\/2014-05-31\/record-low-river-flows-show-need-improved-water-planning\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the Athens Banner Herald discussed long-term changes in stream flow across northeast Georgia.\u00a0 In the past 50 years, the average stream flow in the Oconee River and other rivers in Georgia has declined about 20 percent.\u00a0 At the same time, more extreme rainfalls are causing localized flooding, with longer dry spells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}