Lawmaker wants to redraw Georgia-Tennessee border

A Georgia lawmaker wants to push up Georgia’s boundary line with Tennessee.

Senator David Shaffer (R-Duluth) says an 1818 survey mistakenly over-drew the border about a mile south, and neither the Georgia General Assembly nor the US Congress accepted it. His bill would reset the boundary.

Shafer said it is important that this issue be settled now because of concern that Tennessee may attempt to "hoard" the water in the Tennessee River.

He then pointed out that the Tennessee River is fed by streams and creeks originating in Georgia and that there is more Georgia water in the Tennessee River than in our own Chattahoochee.