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DEL.ICIO.USPerdue and the water talks: ‘It was pleasant to some degree’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sounds like Thursday’s water meeting in Washington was as much fun as jumping into a stand of cactus.
And in an interview on WSB radio this morning, Gov. Sonny Perdue admitted that he did some of the needling.
The governor was asked about the tone of the three-state summit. Listen to most of the interview here.
“It was pleasant to some degree,” Perdue said. “Certainly tense more so from Alabama’s perspective. Their concern was that the Chattahoochee-Apalachicola was being addressed without the [Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin.]
“That’s the watershed that I’d met for over a year with Governor [Bob] Riley on and we came to an agreement.
“And he was to fly here to Atlanta and sign that agreement, and then backed out. And I pointed that out.
“So we had frankly — some very frank and candid discussions. Not 100 percent agreement, but we did come away with an agreement that it is really up to the three states, the three governors, to resolve this.”
Perdue also said he won’t withdraw his request to President Bush for a disaster declaration.
“But I have indicated that as long as we continue to make movements — productive movements in the direction we need, I’m not going to push that and continue to press the president for an answer there,” the governor said.
Perdue also said he sensed a change in attitude in the U.S. Corps of Engineers toward the construction of more lakes to store water. “Frankly, the Corps has indicated and implied more friendliness toward reservoirs than they have in the past,” he said.
Comments
By JamieNAtlanta
November 2, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this
Pres. Bush has ADD, and that he can’t worry about our major water crisis, because he can’t manage more than two problems at a time. He only has time to worry about California on fire, and the War. Gov. Perdue needs to send the Georgia National Guard to Lake Lanier and kick out the Army Corp of Engineers. We can manage our own water problem, and they need to pond the lake back up. We shouldn’t listen to some federal bureaucrat in DC to tell us how to conserve our water here. I really don’t give a rat’s a* about Alabama (they shouldn’t have moved over there) and Florida’s scallops. Florida has water surrounding their entire state. It’s Gov. Perdue’s job to protect the citizens of Georgia, and water is one of the basic human needs.
The solution is simple stop sending water birthed in Georgia to Alabama and Florida. My family settled in Georgia 230 years ago because there was plenty of water and food. I’m not sure why people are settling in Orlando and Birmingham. Anyway, our water reservoir for Atlanta is Lake Lanier, and now because of some DC bureaucrat it’s drier than happy hour at the Betty Ford Clinic!
By JK
November 2, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this
Looks like a failure to plan on Sonny’s part actually does constitute an emergency on somebody else’s part. Way to make a big noise when it’s almost too late, Goober!
By ga_tech_92
November 2, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this
I read, Alabama has filed a federal court suit seeking to block completion of a $100 million reservoir in Cherokee County that would serve Canton and the Cobb water authority. The project, which would generation 44 million gallons of water a day, is less than four weeks from completion….in another article. Does anyone know why (and how) AL would have the right to block GA from building a reservoir, especially when that is exactly the sort of thing we need to do to prevent future water problems?
I don’t get it. Why would AL care if GA builds reservoirs in GA?
By Donald
November 2, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this
Boy, talk about ‘shuck-n-jive’; the whole Wash. dance was a load of it. 20% more water? Wow, sure is nice to know that the ‘Hooch has been around so long keeping the water level of the Gulf where it needs to be. How could Sonny and the other ‘goobers’ in this bunch actually think someone believes they really DO anything?
By Bob in Florida
November 2, 2007 1:56 PM | Link to this
It’s the Al Gore jinx… global warming speeches during a blizzard… now, no rain in the Southeast when Gore’s predicting more hurricanes! Al, please shutup.