Glenn Page, the general manager of the Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority, says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to reduce the flow of water out of Lake Allatoona by 40 percent to 50 percent.

Page says the decision the Corps made Friday is an effort to make sure Allatoona remains a lake.

He says officials are committed to making sure the authority can provide water for customers in 2008.

A spokeswoman for the Corps' office in Mobile, Alabama, confirms the reduction but would not say whether the Corps will do the same for Lake Lanier.

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