The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta will hear arguments tomorrow on the state of Georgia's request to overturn a ruling that could keep the state from withdrawing water from Lake Lanier for drinking water.
Georgia filed the appeal in the 11th Circuit court last April hoping to overturn a U.S. District Court ruling calling Georgia’s water withdrawals from Lake Lanier illegal.
The judge’s ruling also froze water withdrawals at 2009 levels for three years to give Atlanta time to find another source of drinking water or to allow the US Congress to change the authorized use for Lake Lanier.
Without an agreement between the three states, the judge's order would also cut water withdrawals from Lake Lanier to 1970’s levels, when Atlanta was a fraction of its present size.
The ruling affects nearly 4 million people living in the Atlanta area.
The appeal is the latest skirmish in a nearly 20 year battle over how water from the Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint River System is shared between the states of Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
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