Georgia won a major victory in its long-running water fight with Florida last week, but a group of Lake Lanier residents and businesses says it is too early to celebrate the victory. The Lake Lanier Association warns that new bills in Congress threaten the victory, and the lake.
A special master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court issued a final report last week that basically accepted Georgia’s position in a suit brought by Florida. That suit blamed Georgia’s water use from the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers for a collapse of the oyster industry in Apalachicola Bay.
Specifically, the association is worried about a bill introduced by Democratic Florida Senator Bill Nelson that would require new studies of water flow in the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint (ACF) basin below Lake Lanier and would likely require larger water releases from Buford Dam.
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