Corps Defends its Use of Lake Lanier Water

The Associated Press is reporting that the Corps is defending its use of Lake Lanier for Atlanta's water needs:

"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued an opinion saying that it has the legal authority to supply metro Atlanta's drinking water from Lake Lanier ... Corps attorney Earl Stockdale's opinion says that setting aside about 12 percent of the lake for drinking water would have only minor effects on the project's goals to produce hydropower, control floods and float barges."

Atlanta leaders are no doubt happy but Congress, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, the Supreme Court and several other groups are all out there trying to have their say also.