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Post by CMF Newsman on Feb 17, 2012 16:57:16 GMT -5
Once again, Georgia lawmakers are debating whether they can pipe water from the Tennessee River to fix a water shortage in metro Atlanta. Republican Rep. Jay Neal wants the General Assembly to pass a law making it legal to take water from the Tennessee River watershed and diverting it south toward Atlanta. Neal says conservation alone won't answer Georgia's water needs. Environmental watchdog groups say it would be cheaper and more effective to conserve water rather than building expensive pipelines. Senior Republican leaders have floated tit-for-tat trades with Tennessee authorities so they can get water from the river shed. Tennessee House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick said nothing has changed to make his state interested in parting with its water. www.wrcbtv.com/story/16956209/ga-once-again-debate-tapping-tenn-water |
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Post by Gary on Feb 17, 2012 17:07:35 GMT -5
And here we go again. Note to Georgia: No, you can't have our water. Stop begging. Atlanta is your problem and you need to solve it within your own state.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 17, 2012 17:11:14 GMT -5
And here we go again. Note to Georgia: No, you can't have our water. Stop begging. Atlanta is your problem and you need to solve it within your own state. That could be easily done if Alabama and Florida weren't such crybabies. |
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Post by Gary on Feb 17, 2012 17:13:45 GMT -5
That could be easily done if Alabama and Florida weren't such crybabies Atlanta practiced effective water conservation and planned growth. There, straightened that out for you.  |
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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 17, 2012 17:21:57 GMT -5
We were doing pretty good until the Army Corps of Engineers released millions and millions more cubic feet of water than they were supposed to in the middle of a drought. Then you have Florida and Alabama crying because they think we should share rain that falls on our mountains with them. Lanier has plenty of water for us, it's when those other two states start wanting our water that problems occur. You wouldn't want someone claiming your water. Would you?
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Post by ssmynkint on Feb 17, 2012 17:38:33 GMT -5
Ah, the unity that is America!
How 'bout a poll: Whose fault is it:
Ga.
Al
Fl
TN
ACE
God
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Post by pictureman on Feb 17, 2012 19:35:53 GMT -5
Tell ya what: You come get some of our water and we'll send Rick Davis down there to scrape some gold off your dome.
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Post by joedog on Feb 17, 2012 20:00:53 GMT -5
I say let them stick a straw in our river. Since the Tennessee River is a FEDERALLY controlled waterway and what is downstream is controlled by what is upstream. They cant take a drop unless TVA says its OK. And they have already made a statement a year or so back that that can't have it.
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Post by Bam on Feb 18, 2012 9:28:56 GMT -5
If Tennessee's southern border were the 35th parallel as Congress designated in 1796 Georgia would have a share of the Tennessee River. But a surveying team sent by Georgia to chart the line in 1818 was a bit off the mark.
Historians say mathematician James Camak, who led the team, begged the state to provide him the latest equipment, but instead he had to rely on an English sextant, an instrument more familiar to sea captains than land surveyors. Other stories say Camak's team was scared away by an American Indian party.
By this sounds like some GA men wasn't paying attention to details.
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Feb 18, 2012 13:00:16 GMT -5
That issue has already been decided by the courts....the error GEORGIA mad in the original survey stands. The error that GEORGIA has now (called "Atlanta") is GEORGIA'S problem.
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Post by ssmynkint on Feb 18, 2012 13:22:45 GMT -5
Sounds right.
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Post by JC on Feb 18, 2012 14:31:39 GMT -5
Say what you want about Ricco but I still laugh my ass off over him giving a truck load of bottled water to ATL's city council.
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Post by intrigued12 on Feb 18, 2012 19:20:33 GMT -5
Other countries who lack fresh water utilize desalination plants. I've often wondered why our states who border the ocean/gulf don't utilize that technology. Does anyone know the downsides to this technology and why we don't use it?
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Post by ssmynkint on Feb 18, 2012 19:28:32 GMT -5
Costs too much for free market industry to R&D. Israel does it, but they're socialist.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2012 19:55:40 GMT -5
one needs to lift the water by 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), or transport it over more than 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) to get transport costs equal to the desalination costs. according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination |
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Post by harsh on Feb 19, 2012 18:21:11 GMT -5
I fail to see the problem with sharing our resources especially if we can make some money in the process.
The city of Dalton already buys our water via EUD (Eastside Utility District) not to mention Chatsworth and all the other numerous small municipalities.
North Georgia seems to be OK to sell our water to but the mere mention of Atlanta and all of a sudden were not very neighborly anymore. I don't get the narrow minded mentality.
Atlanta could and should get their act together but we (TN) should and can help them out.
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Post by staffsgtsbunny on Feb 20, 2012 10:28:06 GMT -5
We own your water. The sooner you get used to that fact and the sooner you get over it, the sooner this "debate" can go away! LOL
Going to be an interesting year, as the amount of rain we have had has been pretty substantial thus far in - in this region anyway.
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