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Ga. governor says state will sue to cut Apalachicola flow

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 11:49 am
by Boat_Full

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 12:44 pm
by 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...... :smt005 :smt005 :smt005

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 1:33 pm
by Reel Cowboy
lizbeth wrote: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...... :smt005 :smt005 :smt005
Easy there, without tourism, the terrorists win.

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 1:39 pm
by lizbeth
i was just trying to stir the pot a little :smt004

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 1:39 pm
by Dubble Trubble
lizbeth wrote: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...... :smt005 :smt005 :smt005
But then who would catch the fish? :smt005

Dubble :smt004

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 1:40 pm
by Reel Cowboy
Dubble Trubble wrote:
lizbeth wrote: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...... :smt005 :smt005 :smt005
But then who would catch the fish? :smt005

Dubble :smt004
High Five

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 2:11 pm
by RHTFISH
Sign over urinal in SW Georgia:

PLEASE FLUSH: FLORIDA NEEDS THE WATER!

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 3:24 pm
by 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.

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 3:51 pm
by wevans
AHH, but they do own the land that the water must flow over :wink: While I do agree that the water does need to flow :thumbup: 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. :smt004 :beer:

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 3:54 pm
by 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€

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 4:45 pm
by 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.

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 5:19 pm
by MudDucker
Reel Cowboy wrote:
Dubble Trubble wrote:
lizbeth wrote: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...... :smt005 :smt005 :smt005
But then who would catch the fish? :smt005

Dubble :smt004
High Five
High kick with a high five :smt005

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 5:22 pm
by 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.

Posted: October 19th, 2007, 7:50 am
by jsuber
As others have said, they need to curb the developments.

Posted: October 19th, 2007, 8:43 am
by 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. :hammer:


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