The proposal to build what is known as the “Glades Reservoir” was officially put on the federal register of projects by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Placement is one of the fundamental steps in the arduous process to attain the permit to construct t
he reservoir.
A 60-day period now begins for people to comment on the proposed reservoir and marks the completion of the county’s application process.
Lake Lanier supplies water to more than three million people throughout the metropolitan Atlanta region. As the largest reservoir in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin, Lake Lanier is a most precious resource and the subject of heated debate among Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
The last round in legal battles was won by Georgia, when the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision by a lower court that water supply was not a federally authorized use of Lake Lanier. On February 13th, that ruling was appealed to the US Supreme Court by Alabama and Florida.
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