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Atlanta may only need ‘big straw’
Chattanooga Times Free Press ^
| February 23, 2008
| Pam Sohn
Posted on 02/23/2008 7:56:30 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Those Georgians are a'fixin' ta steal Tennessean water...
It's a'feudin' time
:)
To: Tennessee Nana
Hmm feuding about water they didn’t even know existed before GA needed it?
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posted on
02/23/2008 8:00:48 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
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To: Tennessee Nana
Well...ya’lls state line is a full cotton-pickin mile too far south.
That’s our water dagnabbit!
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posted on
02/23/2008 8:01:24 AM PST
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; The majority are satisfied with a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Tennessee Nana
"TVA spokesman Gil Francis said such a plan almost certainly would involve environmental impact studies, federal reviews known for lengthy delays."Understatement of the year...
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posted on
02/23/2008 8:01:38 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Tennessee Nana
Tennessee lawmakers passed the Interbasin Water Transfer Act requiring the state to issue permits to any entity moving water out of the Tennessee River watershedI hate to have to be the one to tell the Tennessee legislature, but they have no authority over the parts of the watershed lying in other states. And the Tennessee River drains parts of 7 or 8 states.
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posted on
02/23/2008 8:04:07 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: bamahead
That lil ol’ bit of I-24 only runs through GA so es we-uns kin git cheap gas at Exit 169
LOL
To: Tennessee Nana
Tennessee should have been paying rent for storing all that water under Georgia land for so long. :)
Possession is 9/10 the law so if they want to poke a hole into a cave you so conveniently filled with water without their permission then I think they should go for it.
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posted on
02/23/2008 8:05:57 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
To: Tennessee Nana
Yer wrong....
That swath’s just thar so it’s easier for we-uns to cross over and git sum farwerks. :)
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posted on
02/23/2008 8:17:56 AM PST
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; The majority are satisfied with a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Tennessee Nana
Warning to folks living in the West, traditional Arabian/Spanish water-rights systems do not apply in the East.
If they did New Orleans or Pass Christian would have 100% of the water rights involved all the way back to the source.
Eastern law is more complicated, follows a totally different convoluted logic, and all that's going to happen here is that Georgia is going to drill some wells.
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posted on
02/23/2008 8:25:30 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Tennessee Nana; All
Notice, how the article focuses on Atlanta.
Nevermind the rest of the state is in severe drought conditions, or the agriculture of the Southern part of the state depends heavily on water...
Oh yeah, we must save Atlanta! I am a Georgian, proud Georgian, but I don’t claim Atlanta.
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posted on
02/23/2008 8:27:53 AM PST
by
shag377
(De gustibus non disputandum est)
To: bamahead
Yer wrong.... That swathâs just thar so itâs easier for we-uns to cross over and git sum farwerks. :)
I thought that was why God made Indiana.
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posted on
02/23/2008 8:29:59 AM PST
by
Mark was here
(The earth is bipolar.)
To: stainlessbanner
Hand me down my shootin’ iron. There’s a gonna be trouble.
To: Tennessee Nana; All
The water supply situation in metro Atlanta is no joking matter. The water authorities serving the region need to find reliable sources of supply other than the 2 current reservoirs. Below is a map of the New York City water system. The system can supply 1.4 billion gallons a day of water so clean that 90% does not need to be filtered. In a drought emergency, they can pump water from the Hudson River north of the salt water line at Chelsea, New York.
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posted on
02/23/2008 9:02:05 AM PST
by
trane250
To: Abathar
Wonder how many endangered species were killed when TVA flooded those caves?
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posted on
02/23/2008 9:09:52 AM PST
by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
To: trane250
It’s good to see Chelsea mentioned in a good way, and not for public intoxication, snubbing nine-year-old kids, or campaigning for crooked politicians.
To: PAR35
Right...and much of Tennessee (including Nashville and Memphis) is outside of the Tennessee River valley.
To: gitmo
Back then when peoples lives and homes were at stake from flooding they took a far more practical view of such things IMHO.
I wonder what would happen now if a TVA or Hoover Dam size project were proposed to benefit a huge amount of people at the stake of losing some special cricket or rare crawdad?
I guess I can answer that question myself....
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posted on
02/23/2008 9:21:12 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
To: Tennessee Nana
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posted on
02/23/2008 9:32:40 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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