Water Council Holds Last Policy Draft Session

Once-floating boat dock, now high and dry at West Point Lake, due to drought. (File /Dave Bender)

A series of public meetings on the statewide water plan wraps up today. The plan was drafted by the Georgia Water Council, under the direction of Georgia's Environmental Protection Division.

The agency's asking for public input in this last round of meetings, one of which will be in Columbus.

Community leaders outside Metro Atlanta have long-criticized what they view as the capital's water-guzzling policies. They fear that the water plan favors metro Area.

But the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce has countered that notion saying the proposed Water plan does not make preferences.

The water Council will submit the final draft to the state legislature when they convene in January. The plan asks for 30 million dollars to actually plan some more, so that Georgia can avoid critical water shortages experienced in North Georgia right now.

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