Send Fed agency says it has the power to give Ga. water

Posted: 2:02 PM Jun 26, 2012
Reporter: The Associated Press

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal agency says it has the legal authority to give Georgia more water from a disputed reservoir, though it has not made a final decision on how much to release.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in documents released Tuesday that it has the legal ability to give metro Atlanta communities access to 705 million gallons of water per day from Lake Lanier on the Chattahoochee River to meet needs through 2030.

That reservoir is the focus of a long-running legal dispute between Alabama, Florida and Georgia.

In 2009, a federal judge ruled that metro Atlanta had little right to Lake Lanier and threatened to significantly curtail water withdrawals.

But the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tossed aside that decision.

(Copyright 2012, The Associated Press)

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