Top state environmental officials may decide later today to rollback water restrictions in north Georgia. The state Enviromental Protection Division has called a meeting for this morning-at issue, whether the recent months of steady to heavy rainfall has been enough to allow a lifting of restrictions. It was only a year ago that more than 40 percent of the region was firmly mired in drought. But since the recent rain, climatologists lifted drought-designations for the state. Only a small pocket in northeast Georgia remains "abnormally dry".
