Ga. governor says state will sue to cut Apalachicola flow

[Boat_Full]

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... IeTb0EM%3D

[lizbeth]

hey, i wonder since the Gov. of Georgia, wants to sue, to keep his water.
wonder if we could sue to keep all of you Georgia boys away from our coast......

[Reel Cowboy]

hey, i wonder since the Gov. of Georgia, wants to sue, to keep his water.
wonder if we could sue to keep all of you Georgia boys away from our coast......

Easy there, without tourism, the terrorists win.

[lizbeth]

i was just trying to stir the pot a little

[Dubble Trubble]

hey, i wonder since the Gov. of Georgia, wants to sue, to keep his water.
wonder if we could sue to keep all of you Georgia boys away from our coast......

But then who would catch the fish?

Dubble

[Reel Cowboy]

hey, i wonder since the Gov. of Georgia, wants to sue, to keep his water.
wonder if we could sue to keep all of you Georgia boys away from our coast......

But then who would catch the fish?

Dubble

High Five

[RHTFISH]

Sign over urinal in SW Georgia:

PLEASE FLUSH: FLORIDA NEEDS THE WATER!

[boggob]

I don't think you realize how importat that water is to the fishery in the bay. Maybe if GA realized that unchecked development was not going to work back when the issue over flows began, some 10+ years ago, they would not be in this situation. They do not own the water.

[wevans]

AHH, but they do own the land that the water must flow over While I do agree that the water does need to flow to be removing millions of gallons of water a day from an area that is short of water is just assnine and needs to be addressed quickly be ALL branches of the gov.

[boggob]

this will shed some more light on the subject:

ROME NEWS TRIBUNE, GA

Opinion: Water catches fire

THOSE IN OFFICE know that citizens pay scant attention to governmental matters until they start hitting them in the pocketbook — sort of like gasoline, which only drew great interest to the policies and problems of its supply when the cost per gallon reached levels never before seen. What happens when water becomes a scarcer commodity as well, with its price doubling or tripling like that of gas? Then the politicians are in trouble, and their past decisions will be called into serious question.

And the fact is that Georgia is not “running out of water.â€

[Rogan]

boggob,

Kind of got to agree with some items in your posts. Folks in Atlanta need water but Atlanta needs to plan better than they have been doing. Folks below Atlanta need the water too so I'm not sure its going to be that easy for our gov.

[MudDucker]

hey, i wonder since the Gov. of Georgia, wants to sue, to keep his water.
wonder if we could sue to keep all of you Georgia boys away from our coast......

But then who would catch the fish?

Dubble

High Five

High kick with a high five

[MudDucker]

Bottom line is that the corp is releasing more water than is coming in, thereby giving the downstream folks more water than they would have if there was a natural flow of water. That isn't right.

The stupid corp didn't even accurately measure its release until about 6 months ago, when some employee checked and the release gauges were bad wrong. Corp released 2 billion gallons too much.

[jsuber]

As others have said, they need to curb the developments.

[Ty one on]

There was a story last year about the Army Corp of Engineers miss reading their survey equipment on Lake Lanier and releasing around 3 verical feet more water then planned.


If this was the old wild west days the state of Florida would go up river and blow-up the dam.