Posted on 10/18/2007 3:55:58 AM PDT by msrngtp2002
Vidalia is in south GA where the problem is not as big. They have had rainfall and have sedimentary aquifers that they use extensively. The majority of the state is still allowed to water outdoors.
Sorry, I meant the reply to be to ‘All’ and not to you.
I heard from a friend a few days ago that landscapers and nurseries are dropping like flies. My wife noticed payment problems at her work with those in the business as well.
Fascinating that the drought and downturn in real estate may accomplish what ICE and screaming have not solved. Buenos Anus amigos.
This is what will happen to healthcare when it is socialized.
A finite resource which people can use without regard to any personal cost or ownership, so there’s no real personal impetus to conserve it...’civic duty’ is never as compelling as the pocketbook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
I grew up 10 miles from Buford Dam on Lake Lanier. The original purpose for Lake Lanier was for power generation and flood control. Ditto Lake Alatoona. Drinking water and recreation are secondary purposes as cited in the original plan. The state, county and municipal governments agreed to that back in the 1950's before either lake was built. Now that the politico's have mismanaged growth for decades and they've created a water shortage, they want to blame the COE. Meanwhile, as Atlanta runs out of water, unbridled new home construction continues as it has for decades, despite water restrictions, sewer moratoriums, etc. A well placed stack of dead Presidents will get you any permit you need in the 'burbs of Atlanta and it's been that way for at least 30 years that I'm aware of. It's hard for this former Georgian to have much sympathy for those in and around Atlanta when the problems they face were almost completely brought on by their own actions. Oh, and don't expect that same COE to permit a water line from the Tennessee River. That ain't gonna happen.
Putting Atlanta's water woes at the feet of the COE is ignoring the real problem, which is too much growth with too few water resources. This has been known for at least 25 years, yet the growth was allowed to continue. IOW, the powers that be set themselves up for this water shortage.
You presuppose that the purpose of government is to make life better for the citizens. In Atlanta, nothing could be further from the truth. The sole purpose of Atlanta city government is to provide a racial spoils systems for blacks and white liberals with tax dollars and plush sinecures being given out to the friends of the administration. The late and unlamented SOS former mayor of Atlanta, Mainturd Jackson's greatest civic accomplishment was insinuating affirmative action into every city job. His daughter was given the lucrative Friday's Restaurant concession at the airport, the worlds busiest. Shirleyville's (the current name for Atlanta) police chief Richard mmmaPenningammmmaton (formerly from New Orleans where he was considered too incompetent) oversees the corruption in the Atlanta police department, rearrainging the players when they get caught doing things like charging personal trips to the taxpayers. However, he still has time to crusade actively against gun ownership, taking a taxpayer sponsored junket to Was DC when the AWB was due to expire testifying for making it permanent and expanding it
Not likely to happen without Congressional input. Lakes Burton, Rabun, Seed, and Hartwell are all on the eastern side of the eastern continental divide. For a similar reason, water won't be taken from the Tennessee River, either. The COE's policy is to not allow water to go from one watershed to another without being replaced with something. They only thing Atlanta has to offer in return is treated sewage. Atlanta is going to have one long row to hoe to convince folks in other watersheds to take their processed turds in exchange for clean drinking water.....
I must say yours is one of the most ignorant and obnoxious comments I've seen here in a while. How should the ordinary people living here accept the blame for the actions of their government? Did we elect them? Hell no. For the most part government officials are not elected, but hired by other government bureaucrats,* and if you don't like something that the government does, tough s**t, They'll do it anyway. BTW the COE is releasing water at four times the rate of what is flowing in using Lake Lanier to keep the lower river at at artificially higher level. If there were no dam at all, then the lower river would have a lot less water in it.
*Look at the federal government for example. There are about 18,000,000. How many are elected? 537.
You DO realize that Hartwell also borders Georgia right? You DO realize that the Dam is actually in Georgia and the main water source for the lake also comes from Georgia? I don’t think you’ll be “selling” us anything.
It’s a shame they can’t get water from eastern Oklahoma. Reservoirs were rising up to 25 feet above normal out there earlier this summer. No way to release water from them without terrible flooding downstream and the rain just kept coming.
Always seems that when one part of the country is in a drought, another part is inundated with rain.
Triple the price and it just hurts the poor. Rich folk do not care what it costs.
You say this like it was a bad thing. The beloved sacred poor are coddled by everyone, paid for by the taxpayers, and live irresponsible life styles at the public's expense. Why are people poor? Because they do things that keep them poor - make repeated bad life style choices like squirting out children as fast as their reproductive systems can cycle, spending their mony on things like beer cigarettes and lotto tickets and above all not working all that much. Family income ON AVERAGE correlates to the number of hours worked in a week, with the lowest income families working 20 hours or less, middle income families working 40 hours, and higer income families working 80 or more hours a week. Let the "poor" pay.
Georgia Officials Threaten to Sue Corp of Engineers Over Draining Reservoirs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912775/posts
The sweet onions coming in from Mexico are better and cheaper than Vidalia.
Do you shop in one of the national food chains?/ and if so, please inform me the name of the store.
I have on several occasions purchased the Texas Sweet onion and, have yet found any that will compare with the Vidalia.
A couple of years ago I purchased a forty lb. bag of Texas Sweets, had to use them in cooking they were so strong.
Maybe that’s why the govt wants to give birth control to middle school kids...
Sorry you find the truth so upsetting, but my comments are based on facts and history. I was born and raised near Atlanta and I'm very familiar with the issues there. You may not like it, and you may choose to shoot the messenger, but the sad reality remains, Atlanta is running out of water and there is no simple solution now that it has been allowed to reach crisis levels. I do find it interesting, though, how you try to make it about me, rather than realizing the problems and dealing with them. Your comments are just an extension and a glaring example of what got ya'll into the problems you face now.
How should the ordinary people living here accept the blame for the actions of their government?
Um, by attending planning commission meetings, local and county commission meetings and becoming vocal about issues before they become a crisis. It's called being a citizen. You can also help by electing congresscritters that support your views. When 70% of the electorate sits out virtually every election, they have no one to blame but themselves. Funny, a few years ago when Atlanta was getting record rainfall, I don't recall anyone stepping up and calling for water restrictions then.
Did we elect them? Hell no. For the most part government officials are not elected, but hired by other government bureaucrats
Yes, you did elect them, or rather, your apathy did.
The ever growing water problems in the Atlanta metro area has been known about for at least 25 years, yet the citizens just let their gubmint continue the building boom without regard to water supply, sewer capacity and the like. Atlanta has been paying million dollar a day fines for their pitiful sewer system for years because the corrupt Atlanta government refused to fix the problem until it became a crisis.
So, no, I don't have any sympathy for Atlanta whatsoever. Deal with it.
Careful. Requiring people to internalize costs is not a popular subject, in the world at large or even on this website.
Carolyn
I have read all the post listed on this issue and, thus for I have not seen any comments pertaining to the next great war?
The next “great war” will not be fought for oil, it will be for water. I haven’t taken the time but, am sure Google will have some article pertaining to the scarcity of future water worries of the world.
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