As far as I can tell, DOWN is the ONLY direction COE lake levels go these days! Received 8 inches of rain in Oct in the upper Hartwell basin, and essentially no level increase in Hartwell or Clarks Hill. What's it going to take?? I guess 10 ft low is the new normal pool for these two lakes. Yeah Russell level gets moved around a lot too. Within 2-5 ft anyways. Seems power production takes priority from the hydros these days, not water management.