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DEL.ICIO.USHumor in the Ga., Tenn. water brawl?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Already brawling with Florida and Alabama, its neighbors to the south and west, Georgia’s gone and picked a third fight with Tennessee, its neighbor to the north. And all of it over water.
After the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution claiming that a misdrawn border had stripped the Peach State of its legal right to water from the Tennessee River, the Tennessee Legislature fired back. It accused its Georgia colleagues of “an election-year ploy (that) is nothing but a veiled attempt to to commandeer the resources of the Tennessee River for the benefit of water-starved Atlanta, which is either unable or unwilling to control its reckless urban sprawl.”
The mayor of Chattanooga, however, saw humor in the situation. In a proclamation, he noted that “the leaders of Georgia have assembled like the Children of Israel in the desert, grumbled among themselves and have begun to cast longing eyes toward the north, coveting their neighbor’s assets,” and worried that “if today they come for our river, tomorrow they might come for our Jack Daniels or George Dickel.” (Read the proclamation.)
So, “in the interest of brotherly love, peace, friendship, mutual prosperity, citywide self promotion, political grandstanding and all that,” Mayor Ron Littlefield is sending a truckload of fresh water to the Georgia General Assembly. But will that gesture be enough to cool the rising political heat? And while we’re at it, should we go ahead and claim that George Dickel distillery?
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By Chief NocaHoma
February 26, 2008 8:25 PM | Link to this
I want my tent back from Fulton Cty stadium, the white man fired me and kept my tent, by the way the water belonged to my people and before that martians
By Abomi Nation
February 27, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this
Better be careful Chattanooga, that truck load of water you’re sending might be better off in Chattanooga.
Suppose that so-called aquarium of yours were to spring a leak. That truck full of water would be enough to fill the thing back up.
Why risk losing your Chattanooga Puddle?
By ed
February 27, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
If Tennessee has extra water, why can’t Georgia seek to buy some of it instead of trying to steal it.
By tico
February 27, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this
If Tennessee has extra water, why can’t Georgia seek to buy some of it instead of trying to steal it.
By John Ellison
February 27, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
The Georgia General Assembly is not very happy about receiving a truckload of water without receiving a truckload of Jack Daniels to mix with it.
By Severed Ties
February 27, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
They dare send us water? Lets send them deodorant and mouthwash, combs and soap, washclothes and towels.
If they would mock our rightful manifest watershed, then let Tennessee know what the Piedmont itself entitles us to, and let them feel the granite we are made of.
Make no mistake about it. We will have our water.
By Rob
February 27, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
Why seek to buy what’s rightfully ours?
By Francine
February 27, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
You know it’s a sad day when one state tries to wheel and deal to underhandedly finagle water from another state, such as actually suggesting moving state boundaries that have been in place for over 100 yrs (with no complaints until now), instead of doing the right thing, such as building reservoirs, encouraging conservation, limiting new and uncontrolled growth. I’m not a native Georgian, but I have lived here for over 20 yrs, and I can honestly say I’m ashamed of Georgia, and Atlanta in particular, and its short-sightedness, greed, and let’s face it, self-pity. “We will have our water”, indeed. humph!
By Rival
February 27, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
Francine, the border dispute has been in play for many years. It’s just become more relevant now with the drought.
The borders do not match what the law says. Adverse possession does not wipe out an enormous mistake of a surveyor, no matter how long ago it was.
By Clay
February 27, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
As a Georgia resident, Chattanooga’s mayor’s response is hilarious!!! It perfectly mocks the ridiculous notion that 200 year old boundaries only work until someone wants something on the other side. Georgia house - get a life! Go to the coast, build a desalinization plant and get on with it. You should have done this years ago.
Also, it is time to start being more responsible with our water. If we fixed all the leaks in the water system in Atlanta, we wouldn’t need any other state’s water anyway.
By get over it
February 27, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
Until state and local governments step in and control rampant growth I will NOT believe there is a water shortage. The Georgia Legislature’s attempt at bullying Tennessee is one of the funniest things I have ever heard. Why doesn’t Sonny just kneel at the steps of the capitol building and pray daily?
By Inman
February 27, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
Here’s a little secret in all this. The whole redraw the state line thing is a initial salvo to open negotiations with TN over allowing GA to access the water from the TN River in years that our reservoirs are running low. It would be complex and could involve GA funding a high speed rail from Atlanta to Chattanooga. But there is an alternative if negotiations hit a sang. Engineering studies have shown that GA can access and supply it’s desired water resources from the TN River by drilling wells near the state border that access under ground reservoirs. From a common-law standpoint, there is no reason this can’t be done and the lawmakers know this. The pipeline has already been preliminary routed and this will be the future course of action one way or another.
By steve walsh
February 27, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
I moved to ATL in 77. It was the best big little town I ever saw. Now, since the Olympics, and various silly things like the NBA allstar game, freaknik, etc….it’s become somewhere I don’t even recognize. Too much of everything that developers and politicians have made millions on, and now it’s up to us to say, “ENOUGH!”
By Rival
February 27, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Tennessee sued to have Mississippi’s border moved years ago.
Tennessee is not a victim here. They know the border is erroneous.
By GaLiberal
February 27, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this
This isn’t funny at all. It’s just plain embarrassing. The Rethuglicon-controlled legislature has nothing better to do than rehash 100+-year old border disputes? What about traffic and the poor and the homeless? We ignore those problems so these Rethuglicon morons can posture and act tough. Like a bunch of thugs. TN has no reason to discuss this and every reason to let Georgia to try and win in court. Which they can’t. We will just look like a bunch of sore losers who want to change the rules to suit them and their little problem. Another factor is that TVA was given control over the ENTIRE river valley. Even if we were successful, TVA could just so no.
When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And this manufactured ‘border dispute’ is living proof.
By KEVIN
February 27, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this
even the hillbillys in tenn are laughing at us. this state sucks
By Michael
February 27, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this
Next our legislature will annex part of the Atlantic Ocean, after that they’ll push the Florida line south to annex part of the Gulf. How emberassing! Cmon legislature, find solutions to the main problems instead of stealing water from others.
By Another Mom
February 27, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
I am with GALiberal - I am embarrassed to say I chose to live here 8 years ago and my family is seriously talking about moving. The combination of the traffic, the sprawl allowed unchecked, the school boards imposing religion in science classes, the praying for rain and now this? We are done. Good Luck Georgia.
By The General
February 27, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
Our troops are massing near the border. Operation River Storm will commence at 1800 hours today. Air strikes will take out key communications centers and we will jam all radio and tv frequencies to confuse command and control centers. We should have a water pump up and running by 0600 tomorrow to pump water into the Atlanta area.
By Keith
February 27, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
I was born in GA and lived there for about 30 years. I never remember the TN border “dispute” being mentioned at all. It is entertaining to see it brought up now. Isn’t there a statute of repose on these things? I bet GA’s right to sue should have expired sometime in the last 200 years. If not, I recommend the Cherokee Nation call up The Hague and set a date on the docket. Good Lord forbid you people conserve - wait a minute, this is Atlanta so the notion of conserving is something akin to Bell’s Theorem to most residents. GA seems to be becoming the California of the south when it comes to stealing (or at least trying) from its neighbors.
Not to throw any ideas out there that what call upon the legislature to be self reliant, but you could start looking into desalinating and piping water from the Atlantic.
By knowitall
February 27, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
It’s a good thing that GA hasn’t controlled the TN river for the last 100 years because it would probably look like a stream if we had.
By ac
February 27, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
I say the precedent was set by Tenn. in 1890 when it made Miss. move it’s border.So quit crying Tenn. and give us what is rightfully ours.
By JP
February 27, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
Due to normal traffic conjestion, the drive from Chattanooga to Atlanta took 8 hours…..
By BK
February 27, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
Gee, Georgia hired the surveyors that drew the line - the surveyors wanted better equipment to do a better job - Georgia said no - now a do over?? Sonny better call his “buddies” in Alabama and apologize for the shoddy surveying work 200 years ago - now Alabama gets part of Memphis (lucky them)! Remember, the error (if there is one) also extends to the TN-AL line.
If the legislature wants to declare war - they need to attack the COE and take over the Buford Dam.
By jwo
February 27, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this
If it’s “Give our Georgia friends a Drink Day,” can i have the Jack Daniels instead of the water?
By mt
February 27, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
There is absolutely no humor in this at all. As the population grows and natural resouces shrink there will be inevitable conflict over them. Just look at Iraq. How sad that two states in the same country have begun bickering over water rights. I haven’t washed my car in two years. And yet I pass by carwashes with lines to get in. Does your car really need to look just like it rolled off the lot? Every day? How green does your grass have to be? I actually convinced one of my friends that towels don’t need to be washed each time they’re used; once a week is plenty. No, there is no humor in this at all.
By SouthPaw
February 27, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
Please…..everyone who for whatever reason is embarrassed to live in this state, call this state home or just plain don’t like us……..PLEASE LEAVE…YOU WILL NOT BE MISSED!!!!
By Glenn
February 27, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
The Ga. National Guard, the state patrol and north Georgia sheriff’s departments are massing along the border. Shhh. It’s supposed to be hush-hush. Don’t know when D-Day is.
By MrLiberty
February 27, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
Why should anyone be surprised at the behavior of our legislature. Most of the idiots I know think that all the oil in the middle east belongs to the US and that those damn AY-RABS have no right keepin’ it from us. why should Tenn. be allowed any property rights.
By SUBURBAN OVERLORD
February 27, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
The SUBURBAN OVERLORD does not understand why some intown Atlantans’ hate themselves so much that they do not stand up and protect their own rights. Is it because the envy and fear the mighty SUBURBAN OVERLORD!
While the SUBURBAN OVERLORD expresses great love for Tennessee, he denounces their propensity for thievery. The SUBURBAN OVERLORD’S land in his north Georgia colonies must be restored.
The Constitution of the United States of America states that another state (Tennessee) can’t be formed from the SUBURBAN OVERLORD’S land unless Congress and the impacted states agree. The state line is congressionally defined in federal law. No statute of limitation exists to protect the rights of the Tennessee squatters to unlawfully encroach upon the SUBURBAN OVERLORD’S north Georgia colonies.
Tennessee has no “Dawg” in this fight once the rightful boundary is restored by the Supreme Court of the United States of America. The SUBURBAN OVERLORD’S minions at TVA will then make the rightful decision regarding water sharing. Tennessee should “Volunteer” to return their ill-gotten land to its lawful owner before the SUBURBAN OVERLORD becomes angry.
By Typical-Morons
February 27, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this
Nice Logic.
“I moved here 8 years ago and we are sick of the sprawl”
Hey Moron, you are part of the problem. You are part of the sprawl. So by all means don’t let the door hit you in your oversized dairy aire on the way out.
By RPChattanooga
February 27, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
I am suprised that some Georgians have missed the humor in our Mayors gesture. When you think about it the entire idea is opening up a can of worms Georgia might not want. Do you really want to spend a bunch of money on a lawsuit you will lose?
So you want to claim land you say belongs to you? Ok then, lets talk about the Cherokee and Creek native lands in Georgia that were taken away from them. Are you going to have the same moral indignation when they demand to have their land returned. And as for drilling in the caves, you might want to check with the EPA and/or the Army Corp of Engineers before you stick your straw into that well.
Address your local problems, look to your own states resources before trying to steal our water. It really doesn’t belong to you.
By Dr. Correcto
February 27, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
Aaron Gould Sheinin misspelled the name of Chattanooga City Councilman Manny Rico througout his story that’s online now, so it’s not a typo. Geez.
By Copyleft
February 27, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
Maybe Bush can declare a War on Thirst and send 50,000 troops into Georgia to help fight the water-consumption problem.
By john
February 27, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this
Even if Georgia did succeed in getting the border moved, how in the hell are you going to get the water over Lookout Mountain? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to try to tap into the Savannah River? Oh yeah, Interbasin water transfers cannot happen in Georgia (thank God). We have enough water here in Lake Hartwell.
By Fred
February 27, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
Agreed, we (GA) certainly need to be more conservative with our water useage.
Additionally, I would like to thank the good folks up in Tennessee for setting such a great example by wasting 12 gallons of gas driving here and back.
By Abomi Nation
February 27, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
This just in…………
The Georgia legislature has just announced that it will introduce a bill that would ban University of Tennessee at Chattanooga license plates in response to the ongoing water crisis and border battle.
By Uncle Groucho
February 27, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
Man, I’m getting thirsty just reading this…
By Just Nasty and Mean
February 27, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
Tennessee has been stealing our damn water for decades, and now we want it back! IN exchange for the use of our water, we require Tennessee pay for teh infrastructure to ship said water to Atlanta—-to be completed by this summer.
PLUS, we want payment for the lost Ga. income tax revenues for the people and towns in the disputed areas.
And finally, we also demand Tennessee apologize for their acknowledged and intentional encroachment on our land, and will provide submission to Ga. law and jurisdiction immediately and heretofore.
Just because Tennessee was allowed to steal from us for 200 years does not mean they should be allowed to continue.
By Lee
February 27, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
Gee, Thanks Georgia! Every now and again, Georgia decides to stop doing important things, and starts to entertain the rest of the country by being silly and foolish. After wasting your resources by giving uncontrolled growth and profits to outside developers who have no care in the world about the effects of their growth except on their profits, now you are crying “Water! Water!” Remember, whisky is for drinking, and water is for fighting. Your problem is that you have too many enemies- all the states around you have water problems with Georgia- doesn’t this indicate that Georgia might be the problem, and not everyone else? Naw, that might indicate that you actually need all those government rules and regulations regarding the environment, instead of working to preserve what you have. Oh, well. You can either waste your children’s lives on invading your neighbors to take what you can’t conserve, or have your children die of thirst until the population levels sink to the resources level, or God forbid, pay for your mistakes and go ahead and do something sensible. The rest of the nation are waiting with baited breath to see what foolish idea Georgia will come up with next. We are waiting for someone in the Georgia legislature to show some Intelligent Design, rather than inflicting that foolishness into the school curriculum. In short, we are waiting to be amused.
By Curious George
February 27, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
I was wondering how Alabama and Florida are able to lay claim to the water in Lake Lanier?
I didn’t realize their state borders dissected the lake. When did those boundry lines get redrawn?
By Brian
February 27, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this
I want to know if GA has concered the cost of insurance for all the new Georgians, also the cost of printing new maps of America, the cost of new birth certificates having to be reprinted, the additional DOT work, the cost of reprinting new car tags or will all thses items be the responsibility of our new GA neighbors! We should walk away from this and get our water somewhere else!
By SharonH
February 27, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
The proclamation was pretty darned funny. You have to give credit to the folks of Tennessee for reacting with humor to the lunacy our our legislators.
By Rdog
February 27, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
Sorry Tico, the Government can’t buy the water. That would be a simple and executable free market idea. They have just learned to take when they need it.
By Hotlanta
February 27, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
GALiberal - hung up on that Rethuglicon thing aren’t you? How about them Democraps?
By Chris D'
February 27, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
Concur:
By RPChattanooga
February 27, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
I am suprised that some Georgians have missed the humor in our Mayors gesture. When you think about it the entire idea is opening up a can of worms Georgia might not want. Do you really want to spend a bunch of money on a lawsuit you will lose?
So you want to claim land you say belongs to you? Ok then, lets talk about the Cherokee and Creek native lands in Georgia that were taken away from them. Are you going to have the same moral indignation when they demand to have their land returned. And as for drilling in the caves, you might want to check with the EPA and/or the Army Corp of Engineers before you stick your straw into that well.
Address your local problems, look to your own states resources before trying to steal our water. It really doesn’t belong to you.
By John
February 27, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
The only real surprise was that Representative Tim Bearden did not pull his gun on Davy Crockett.
By Tater
February 27, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
I’m with Curious George, how can FL and AL make demands on our water supply, yet we can’t tap into the TN River…..seems reasonable.
By Tater
February 27, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
I’m with Curious George, how can FL and AL make demands on our water supply, yet we can’t tap into the TN River…..seems reasonable.
By Chris D'
February 27, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
First we had prayer for rain, now redrawing state lines.
I can’t fathom what the next water acquisition proposal will be. If trends continue it should be some other pathetic proposal as opposed to addressing the problem.
By why wait
February 27, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this
Why are some of you making such a fuss over this? Don’t you all want to have water coming out of YOUR faucets in the future? What would you say then? Anytime you drive over the TN River it always full and about to run over its banks. We would be taking just a small amount that is available that would be just a drop out of a big bucket. Besides, it seems like the easiest, cheapest way to get water for our future. Any of you know how much it cost to desalt water from the ocean?
By Ron
February 27, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this
I just reasd a description of Tennessee and it said that the state is blessed with a vast system of resevoirs and 29 lakes,offering all kinds of water sports.Don’t that just beat all.
By Hick Philosopher
February 27, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
…lets just see how good dem boys play futboll when they ain’t got no water to drink.
By Kevin
February 27, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
I find it laughable that people who live in Atlanta call people in Chattanooga hillbillies and make similar condescending comments.
Hello Pot. I’m Kettle. You’re black.
I guess it’s true what they say: When you can’t make a valid argument, call someone a name.
By TitaniumShaft
February 27, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this
Oh yes all of us hillbillies are just up here drowning in all of our VAST 29 lakes and reserviors. The drought has affected TN too you jackasses, go south to the ocean and start getting your water from there. Remember you are a COASTAL state. Time to realize that the border will NOT be moved… oh my what is that new stench coming from Atlanta? DESPERATION…
By Dave
February 27, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
The land can not be reclaimed by Georgia. Look at all of the Native American cases in Upstate New York where the tribes are trying to reclaim land they were cheated out of hundreds of years ago. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the tribes waited too long to make a claim. Looks like this ruling would apply in this situation.
By Steve
February 27, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
Up until the late 1998 Ellis Island belonged to completely to New York. New Jersey won claim to most of the island in a Supreme Court ruling. New Yorker’s were not happy about this, as there was much New York tradition associated with Ellis Island. Now most of Ellis Island is in New Jersey. So this type of thing isn’t completely new. Granted Ellis Island doesn’t have any residents.
By Brent
February 27, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this
This is a sign that those inbreds in Tennessee aren’t worth putting up with anymore. It’s high time the Greatest State in the Union changed hats. Let us and the states bodering Tennessee divide her, and ship the inbreds off to Anartica. Change Georgia’s Hat Sonny and prove to them the only good thing to come out of Tenn. is Elvis and Bar-B-Que!!!
By Josh
February 27, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this
I started drinking gasoline last summer in an effort to conserve water. I started running my car on french fry oil to conserve gas. Then I went on a diet to get in better health which eliminated my source of french fry oil. Can we start arguing about the hole in the o-zone layer or rainforest destruction? Those topics haven’t been discussed in 10 years.
By catlady
February 27, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this
I am embarrassed, too. I think Chattanooga has handled it very nicely. Shows (as if someone had not noticed) what idiots our legislators are. Maybe we could form a “superstate” called Misstengalnocar or something. Is our border with NC correct? Of course, no one worries about our border with Alabama—why would we want it?
Wonder if our border on the Atlantic Ocean is correct? LOL
Folks, Atlanta has got to “suck it up”. And I am not talking about the Tennessee River, either.
By catlady
February 27, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this
The TN river does not run THROUGH Ga. The water that Alabama and Florida get merely PASSES THROUGH GA. See the difference?
BTW, the wells around me (no “city water” is available here) are going dry while the bottled water people suck and cart off thousands of gallons daily from 3 Superwells nearby for those little bottles you ATL folks carry around. When you start fussing about Chattanooga’s use of gas to deliver the water and “your” water rights, think about that!
By kevin
February 27, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this
thats it, I am moving to IDAHO
By Clay
February 27, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this
This ‘conversation’ over who owns what is ridiculous. Think about this - every single person who lives just north of the state lines of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina would now live in a different state if Georgia had the line redrawn one mile north. First of all, would us Georgians really want any Tennessians to suddenly be citizens of this state?
State of Georgia - it is a shame that our representatives present such a lame prospect for getting water from the Tennessee River. Let’s just say that 200 years ago, part of the river was in Georgia? Wasn’t it our surveyors that marked the line? Can everyone sue to bring back things that were theirs 200 years ago? I can think of one thing from that long ago that nobody would want to see again - slavery. When is Mexico getting Texas back? Do we need to give Hawai’i and Alaska back to their rightful owners? Should the French sue to get access to the Mississippi back?
We pay these legislators good money to come up with this? Embarrassing! How about some forward-thinking people in office.
I certainly agree that Sonny’s first step would be to kick the Corp of Engineers out of Buford Dam and stop the excessive flow out of Lake Lanier. I’ve driven by the Chattahoochie - it looks like flood stage every time I go by.
By Danged if you do
February 27, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
With all the hyperbole being thrown around about regarding desalination plants, we might do well to look at a few facts.
The largest desalination plant in the world is the Jebel Ali plant in the United Arab Emirates. That plant has a production capacity of 208 million gallons of fresh water per day.
The largest desalination plant in the United States is in Tampa and has a capacity of only 22 million gallons of fresh water per day – less than 1/3 of the water consumed per day in Gwinnett county alone.
The Corps of Engineers most recent daily releases from Lake Lanier have averaged 407 million gallons per day – nearly twice the production capacity of the world’s largest desalination plant.
Metro-Atlanta lies 270 to 350 miles from Georgia’s coastline has an elevation ranging from 900 to 1100 feet above sea level.
The largest desalination plants are Multi-stage flash distillation plants. This is a process where salt water is heated to produce steam which is then condensed back into fresh water. These plants are typically paired with power plants (both nuclear and fossil fuel) to produce the heat necessary for the process. The by-product from these plants is a high salt content brine which must then be disposed of back into the ocean.
Given these facts we can draw some conclusions.
The Corps of Engineers sends much more water over the Lake Lanier dam to Alabama and Florida than we could likely produce at a desalination plant.
Building a desalination plant large enough to provide for the needs of Metro-Atlanta would be monstrously expensive. The UAE can afford it because they have vast amounts of oil revenue and very few other options. Georgia does not have that luxury.
Because Metro-Atlanta lies so far inland, transporting the desalinated water from the coast would be extremely expensive and consume large amounts of energy. The building of pipelines would be tied up for years in the courts by a host of environmental groups intent on protecting the rights of salamanders, armadillos, and fire ants.
Environmental groups would likely have multiple strokes over the impact that dumping highly concentrated brine back into the ocean would have. Nuclear watch groups would have strokes over the possibility of adding more nuclear reactors along the coast. The seafood industry would have a series of conniption fits over the damage done to the fisheries by the water intakes for the desalination plants. And on, and on, and on.
Basically, unless it rains, we’re screwed. The property line with Tennessee was mis-drawn and is unlikely to be corrected. The federal government cares much more about the needs of a handful of mussels and sturgeon than it does about the needs of 5 million people. Georgia isn’t even guaranteed access rights to 25% of the water in Lake Lanier, even though 100% of the watershed for the lake lies in Georgia. Somehow Florida and Alabama get to lay claim to water that originates in Georgia, yet no-one asks them to provide for their own water needs. Any new attempts to build reservoirs will be fought tooth and nail by one environmental group or another.
Short of a mass population exodus or 3 good years of rainfall, there isn’t much that is going to improve the situation.
By swolf4810
February 27, 2008 6:32 PM | Link to this
The State of Georgia has refused to negotiate in good faith with Florida and Alabama all these years. Furhtermore, if it means being able to continue their ridiculous rate of growth, Atlanta is perfectly willing to SCREW the citizens of South Georgia too! Why is it a surprise to some folks that now our “Great State” is trying to STEAL land and water from Tennessee? Staus quo.
By Princess Lum
February 27, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this
It looks like Georgia was punked by Tennessee. Sorry guys, you shouldn’t try to grab other peoples’ land. It’s their’s now, however accurate or inaccurate the original line was drawn.
Man up, Dudes, and come up with some reasonable solution. You’re riding a dead horse.
By Princess Lum
February 27, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this
It looks like Georgia was punked by Tennessee. Sorry guys, you shouldn’t try to grab other peoples’ land. It’s their’s now, however accurate or inaccurate the original line was drawn.
Man up, Dudes, and come up with some reasonable solution. You’re riding a dead horse.
By Princess Lum
February 27, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this
It looks like Georgia was punked by Tennessee. Sorry guys, you shouldn’t try to grab other peoples’ land. It’s their’s now, however accurate or inaccurate the original line was drawn.
Man up, Dudes, and come up with some reasonable solution. You’re riding a dead horse.
By The Thin Guy
February 28, 2008 12:12 AM | Link to this
Let’s send the water back to them after we filter it through our kidneys. Further research reveals that Rock City and Ducktown also belong to us.
By Sonny Perdufus
February 28, 2008 12:47 AM | Link to this
Dear God,
Please don’t let any of those Tennessee people remind any more people about all the planned water reservoirs we never built around Atlanta. We already spent the money on other stuff! Did you not hear me right on my lottery prayer last week? I wanted it to win it for myself! But at least you got the state right. But this Fall, when I pray for a national football championship, please get more than just the state right. It’s gotta be the DAWGS, not Tech or Georgia Southern. Gotta go, God, there’s some celebrities in town waiting to talk to me about another movie cameo. I am sure I will be talking to you again soon.
Love, Sonny
By Steviejoe
February 28, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Maybe with the lack of water, Atlanta will dry up and blow away. We can only hope.
Signed, No water for you!!!