The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/19/07
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took heat last year for releasing too much water from a North Georgia lake. This year, the federal agency is being criticized for not releasing enough from another North Georgia lake.
The latest attack came from Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, who is demanding more water from Lake Allatoona for his state. In a letter sent this week to Army Secretary Pete Geren, Riley said the Corps has been "obsessed" with maintaining Allatoona at the highest levels possible, illegally retaining 18 billion gallons of water in the federal lake that should have flowed downstream to Alabama."That shortfall of water has imperiled Alabama's public water supply, water quality and power grid, as well as threatened layoffs of thousands of Alabama workers whose employers may not have enough water available to operate their businesses," Riley wrote.
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