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Water negotiations dip into ACT Basin with Alabama court case
By Pamela A. Keene

A federal court hearing in mid-August in a Birmingham courtroom may further hinder Georgia’s ability to withdraw water from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ lakes in the state.

On Monday, August 16, US District Court Judge Karon Bowdre met with attorneys in the case to set a timetable for hearing testimony in the case between Alabama and Georgia about the issue. Her decision, which is expected sometime next year, may determine whether Georgia can withdraw water from Allatoona Lake as part of the Allatoona Coosa Tallapoosa basin.

The legal wranglings are reminiscent of the mid-July decision by U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson in which he ruled that the region’s withdrawals from Lake Lanier are illegal.

Allatoona Lake and Lake Lanier both currently provide drinking water for nearly 4.5 million people in Atlanta. With the ruling in July by Judge Magnuson, Georgia, Alabama and Florida have been given three years to resolve this issue.

His ruling that drinking water was not an original authorized purpose for the creation of Lanier and Buford Dam could cripple Atlanta. It is the latest event in the 20-year ongoing water negotiations between the three states.

Alabama officials are challenging the Corps’ authority in the way it manages lakes in Georgia that provide water downstream, citing that supplying drinking water was not an original authorized purpose of the Lanier and Allatoona reservoirs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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