Posted on 02/26/2008 12:32:37 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
Give Our Georgia Friends A Drink Day Proclaimed
The city of Chattanooga, facing a possible Georgia land grab as part of an effort to get access to the Tennessee River, is sending a truck load of bottled water to Atlanta.
Mayor Ron Littlefield said the water will be delivered on Wednesday by his aide Matt Lea wearing a coonskin cap.
The mayor has officially proclaimed Feb. 27, 2008, as Give our Georgia Friends a Drink Day. The proclamation comes as a result of the Georgia Legislature passing a joint resolution that seeks to pursue reestablishing the boundary between Georgia and Tennessee.
The truck load of bottled water along with the proclamation will be delivered to the Georgia Legislature Wednesday morning.
Please know that we are willing to help our neighbors to the south with this complimentary truck load of water, said Mayor Littlefield. And along with this water, we want to send Georgia legislators a message that focusing on conservation efforts would be much more productive than an ill-conceived land and water grab.
The water is being donated by the Chattanooga Choo Choo and others. The truck is on loan from a local automobile dealership.
If you would like to donate water to be included, please drop off sealed bottles of water to City Hall, 1st floor, 101 East 11th Street, Chattanooga, until 4:30 p.m. today.
Mayor Littlefield said on Talk Radio on Tuesday that building a pipeline from the Tennessee River to Atlanta would be cost prohibitive.
He said it is uphill to Atlanta and the pipeline project would be the largest public works project ever in the Southeast.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, it has come to pass that the heavens are shut up and a drought of Biblical proportions has been visited upon the Southern United States, and
WHEREAS, the parched and dry conditions have weighed heavily upon the State of Georgia and sorely afflicted those who inhabit the Great City of Atlanta, and
WHEREAS, the leaders of Georgia have assembled like the Children of Israel in the desert, grumbled among themselves and have begun to cast longing eyes toward the north, coveting their neighbors assets, and
WHEREAS, the lack of water has led some misguided souls to seek more potent refreshment or for other reasons has resulted in irrational and outrageous actions seeking to move a long established and peaceful boundary, and
WHEREAS, it is deemed better to light a candle than curse the darkness, and better to offer a cool, wet kiss of friendship rather than face a hot and angry legislator gone mad from thirst, and
Whereas, it is feared that if today they come for our river, tomorrow they might come for our Jack Daniels or George Dickel,
NOW THEREFORE, In the interest of brotherly love, peace, friendship, mutual prosperity, citywide self promotion, political grandstanding and all that
I Ron Littlefield, Mayor of the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee,
Do hereby Proclaim that Wednesday, February 27, 2008 shall be known as
Give Our Georgia Friends a Drink Day
We-uns will give 'em water..
LOL
The border was set up in error, but there is no "reestablishing" here. The border has been established this way all along.
Draiiiiiiinage!!!!!
“tomorrow they might come for our Jack Daniels or George Dickel”
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Yikes...
LOL
The local radio stations have been announcing the collection of bottled water all day...
Tomorrow the worthy citzens of Atlanta get water...
in bottles...
LOL
Georgia ought to just build an underground pipe and suck the river dry
Draiiiiiiinage!!!!!
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That was considered...
Atlanta may only need big straw
Years ago a Georgia planner joked, half seriously, that the Peach State should just stick a straw in the Tennessee River to bring water to thirsty Atlanta.
The analogy may turn out to be easier than anyone thought.
Regional cavers are suggesting on their blogs that Georgia take advantage of Tennessee River water backed up years ago by TVA dams into Nickajack Cave and some connected caverns. They say water captured from the Tennessee River flows underground into Georgia and Alabama. If engineers could drill in, then courts might have to decide if the water is groundwater or impounded Tennessee River water.
Tennessees Department of Environment and Conservation officials acknowledge the cave drilling idea is a possibility.
There may be a river water connection to cave streams in Georgia, said Tisha Calabrese-Benton, spokeswoman for the department.
Do we know whether there is a specific place in Georgia where someone could drill and hit an underground lake that existed in some capacity before Nickajack was flooded and is now charged with Tennessee River water? No. But the department believes that moving Tennessee River water out of the Tennessee River watershed would require permission from both TVA and the Army Corps of Engineers, she said.
Ms. Calabrese-Benton said Tennessee officials believe TVA and the corps would be protective of the resource in all states.
TVA spokesman Gil Francis said such a plan almost certainly would involve environmental impact studies, federal reviews known for lengthy delays.
Nickajack Cave is a protected area as the habitat of an endangered species of bat, he said. And even if Georgia could drill to water in a connected underground cave near Nickajack, experts would have to show where the water came from. Even in groundwater, should dye tests or other means show it is Tennessee River water or a river source water, an environmental impact study would have to be conducted to show the impact on the river, he said.
What they (Georgians) are asking us to do is divert water that goes to Huntsville and many other cities and instead send it to Atlanta, Mr. Francis said. Weve heard a lot of discussion about moving the border, but even if you did, it doesnt change the watershed. If you transfer water from that watershed, it will affect reservoir elevations and TVAs abilities to do what it does. And youre still talking about interbasin transfer.
In 2000, Tennessee lawmakers passed the Interbasin Water Transfer Act requiring the state to issue permits to any entity moving water out of the Tennessee River watershed, which is the 40,000-square-mile area where rainfall naturally flows ultimately to the river.
Dodd Galbreath, who as a policy planner in the administration of former Gov. Don Sundquist helped push through Tennessees interbasin water transfer permitting law, said officials then wrote the law with specific language to account for conjunctive relationships or connections between surface and groundwater.
Any removal of groundwater that results in a reduction of flow in the Tennessee River counts, Mr. Galbreath said Friday. We were very careful to regulate the effect, not just the action.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975034/posts?page=38#38
Tennessee sounds kind of worried, LOL.
No,
we jest ead a big ol’ rain storm last night...
The piggies dun drunk their fill...
so ez now we-uns gots lot to spar
LOL
LOL
And thus began the Civil War II...
Whereas, it is feared that if today they come for our river, tomorrow they might come for our Jack Daniels or George Dickel,
God Bless Lem Motlow
And thus began the Civil War II...
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HUH...
Thet thar es tha War betwixt tha States...
The War of Nor’th’n Aggresson.., y’all...
South East Tennessee will rise again
LOL
I’ll drink to that.
It’s largely been forgotten in the area, but most east Tennesseans and Kentuckians were pro-Union, or at least anti-Confederacy. Much as in West Virginia.
Yes that is so...
Hamilton County and Bradley county were pro-Union...
And north Georgians. Union County is named that for a reason.
Nothing like a little ridicule to lighten an otherwise odd and improbable situation.
Did not know that, thanks.
I believe there were also parts of north Alabama that were pro-Union.
I read somewhere that every state except South Carolina produced at least one (white) Union regiments from its citizens.
LOL
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