Lake Lanier water going, going …
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is moving forward with work on its court-ordered plan to deny metro Atlanta water from Lake Lanier, even as Gov. Perdue’s Water Task Force met at the Governor’s Mansion today to come up with alternatives to Lanier’s water.
Georgia Public Broadcasting reports that the Corps “has started to rewrite the manual it uses to control water flows in the Chattahoochee river basin.” A federal judge ruled earlier this year that the Army had never actually been authorized to allow the Atlanta region to use Lanier’s water and must come up with a plan to send the lake’s water downstream as soon as 2012.
Perdue appointed the 80-member task force to come up with a contingency plan in case the state can’t work out a deal with Alabama and Florida to get a share of the water. Environmentalists fear that the business-dominated panel will emphasize the construction of costly reservoirs,
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