A new procedure at Jim Woodruff Dam could mean that, in times of drought, reservoirs in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin will be fuller when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers resumes normal water releases to Apalachicola Bay. But when rainfall is at least average, corps officials say they want to make the river act as natural as possible just below Woodruff Dam, matching flows below the dam with those above it. The corps, which manages the reservoirs in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin including Lake Lanier, made the announcement Tuesday.