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Showing posts with label Woodruff Dam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Woodruff Dam. Show all posts

Friday, October 12, 2007

Perdue threatens lawsuit over water woes


Chattahoochee River, Columbus: sandbars and stones, midstream as the drought worsens. (Dave Bender)

Governor Sonny Perdue is threatening to sue the Army Corps of Engineers unless it immediately reduces the amount of water being released from Woodruff Dam.

Perdue wants inflow to match releases from the dam at Lake Seminole, until March of 2008.

He says the Corps has until next Wednesday to respond.

Sandbars, looking north to the Eagle Phenix Dam. (Dave Bender)

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