Post by Logan on Apr 25, 2016 2:09:37 GMT -6
TALLAHASSEE — U.S. senators from Florida and Alabama are again asking Congress to intervene in their states' long-running "water wars" with Georgia.
Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, and Bill Nelson, D-Fla., on Tuesday joined Alabama Republicans Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions in moving to insert language into a government funding bill requiring all three states to agree on changes in allocations of water from the two river systems they share.
All three states share the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, while Georgia and Alabama share the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers controls the flows in both systems, and has relied on a 2011 ruling from a federal appeals court that said Georgia has a legal right to water from Lake Lanier, at the top of the ACF system near Atlanta.
But Florida and Alabama contend that the Corps of Engineers has mismanaged the system by excessively reducing the freshwater flows downstream from Georgia, where the ACF and ACT systems begin.
Read more: www.gainesville.com/article/20160423/WIRE/160429831/1034?Title=Florida-Alabama-senators-renew-river-battle-with-Georgia
Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, and Bill Nelson, D-Fla., on Tuesday joined Alabama Republicans Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions in moving to insert language into a government funding bill requiring all three states to agree on changes in allocations of water from the two river systems they share.
All three states share the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, while Georgia and Alabama share the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers controls the flows in both systems, and has relied on a 2011 ruling from a federal appeals court that said Georgia has a legal right to water from Lake Lanier, at the top of the ACF system near Atlanta.
But Florida and Alabama contend that the Corps of Engineers has mismanaged the system by excessively reducing the freshwater flows downstream from Georgia, where the ACF and ACT systems begin.
Read more: www.gainesville.com/article/20160423/WIRE/160429831/1034?Title=Florida-Alabama-senators-renew-river-battle-with-Georgia