The water wars continue. Due to massive siphoning, the Colorado river looks like an old man's urine stream by the time it trickles into Mexico. If allowed, Georgia would do the Panhandle and Alabama the same way and that's just wrong because we're not beaners :
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne acknowledged Saturday that White House-brokered water negotiations among Alabama, Florida and Georgia have failed.Without an agreement, the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies will begin implementing a water-sharing plan of their own, Kempthorne said in a letter to the governors.
"Regrettably, it will necessarily be a solution being directed to the states instead of our much hoped for solution coming from the states," he wrote in the letter, released Saturday.
Kempthorne said the talks, which began last fall, yielded more progress in three months than at any time during the last 18 years.
But he said the negotiators could not reach a comprehensive agreement and called it "unfortunate" that the states are moving forward with ongoing litigation.
"It is our hope that developments in the courts will not frustrate further progress in resolving the remaining technical issues we face together," he said.
The three states have been feuding for nearly two decades over water rights in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa river basins, which run south through Georgia into Alabama and the Florida panhandle.
Georgia is fighting to hold back more water in federal reservoirs around Atlanta to serve its growing population.
Florida and Alabama argue that Georgia hasn't adequately planned for growth. The extra withdrawals, they argue, would damage the environment and dry up river flows into their states that support smaller municipalities, power plants, commercial fisheries and industrial users like paper mills.
They act like Atlanta's burning the way they pour water on it. Has Governor Perdue not thought to do a rain dance on Chris Carlos' head? Would the chronically offended protest it as against the separation of church and state if he did?
The joke's going to be on everybody when the Corps of Engineers gets done.
Posted by floridacracker at March 4, 2008 05:22 AMOne would have thought the Corps would leave things alone after the Kissimmee river fisaco..but I guess
the decided margin of error has something to do with
fifty years or so...
They carved up that river (like your Naples link suggests) and it has taken mucho dinero to rectify
it..lots of people lost some prime cattle land in the re-process also.
I have a novel solution to the water problem..it's called ICE, INS, and 'use of deadly force' on the border.
Whoever thinks I am joking won't be laughing in about five years, when water tops three bucks a gallon, and Monsanto develops a two week deodorant.
Florida residents please contact your State House Rep and support the following:
* HB 73 Florida Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2008
* HB 159 / SB 388 Florida Security and Immigration Compliance Act
* SB 124 Aliens / Unauthorized Employment
* HB 107/SB 424 /SB624 Human Smuggling
* SB 540 Felons / Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws
* HB 571 Illegal Aliens
* HB 577 / SB 1086 Illegal or Undocumented Aliens
* HB 821 Illegal Immigration
Hey, what do you expect? We are a conquered people who have been occupied for the past 144 years. We have been "discovered" by hordes of invader-immigrants who have cul de sac'd the entire countryside for fifty miles in all directions from where I sit! Surely the floridacracker, of all people, should be able to relate. But never fear you Florida-panhandlians, your problems are easily solved: Join us in our effort to evict those "Volunteer" squatters who are blocking our access to what was supposed to be our piece of the Tennessee River basin.
See the following article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/us/22water.html
The lake I live on Carl, used to have a special
state monitor imbedded in the spring, to tes the aquifer pressure..or some such nonsense..but after
they dropped a couple of those ten inch well points in the ground a mile or so away, the spring just isn't worth measuring anymore.
It has been listed as one of the top 100 cleanest
lakes in the state for years, but I hear the invader/conquerers plan on routing some waste water
into it from a freshly approved multi-family thing a ma bob near here. Needless to say, I am nice and pissed about the whole thing. And it does a lot of good, also..at least the feral cats think so.
You can bet that Tennessee is going to laugh all the way to the bank when they build a pipeline tapping the river to supply Atlanta.
Posted by: Gmac at March 5, 2008 10:03 AMThey will make money. I predict that GA will provide a commuter rail to Chattanooga as well as an airport before it's all over.
We own that damn one mile strip of land though....
Hot real estate tip: Buy land in NE Georgia!
Posted by: Carl in Atlanta at March 5, 2008 11:10 AM