Lawsuits aimed at getting the Army Corps of Engineers to act on decades-old water supply requests for the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) River Basin have been filed in federal court.
Allatoona Lake and the Etowah River both are part of the river basin.
It’s an ongoing battle to get the Army Corps of Engineers to take action on water supply issues for metro-Atlanta’s growing population, and Georgia leaders allege politics have kept the Corps from definitively addressing the more than 30-year-old issue.
“It is regrettable, but necessary, that we must now ask the court to require the Corps to do its job and make a decision. We need to know how Allatoona Lake will be operated for water supply so we can plan for the future,” Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens said. “That’s all we’re asking the Corps to do — put politics aside, make a decision and let the chips fall where they may.”
There are two lawsuits that have been filed: one by the state of Georgia and the other by the Atlanta Regional Commission and the Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority (CCMWA).
via Lawsuits filed to compel Corps of Engineers to act – The Cherokee Ledger-News: Weekly News.
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