If Florida wants to
overturn a recent federal appeals court ruling that gives Atlanta the
right to tap Lake Lanier for
drinking water it will have to go to the US Supreme
Court to do it.
The 11th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in Atlanta rejected
a request Friday to revisit the issue.
This latest ruling is just the latest in a 20 year
battle over water rights from the Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint
River System.
In 2009 a federal court ruled Atlanta did not
have the right to take water from Lake Lanier; that
decision was overturned by the court of appeals this summer.
That decision gives the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers one year to figure out how to give Georgia access
to more water while still considering the water needs of downstream users and
wildlife when making their decision.
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