Interbasin water transfer policy in Georgia: recommendations for change from the joint comprehensive water plan study committee
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Myszewski, Margaret
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Hatcher, Kathryn J.
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Abstract
While Georgia has provisions in place to
address interbasin water transfers, there are concerns
that these provisions will not be sufficient to meet future
demands for interbasin transfers. Consequently, the Joint
Comprehensive Water Plan Study Committee, created by
the 2001 Georgia Assembly, charged the Interbasin
Transfer Working Group with identifying and evaluating
policy options relating to interbasin transfers. As a result
of meetings held in 2002, the Working Group produced a
report which set forth a series of options for policy
changes for consideration by the Study Committee. The
Study Committee, based on the Working Group’s report,
made a series of recommendations for changes to
Georgia’s interbasin transfer policy to the Governor and
the General Assembly. These recommendations include:
expansion of the definition of interbasin transfer to include
groundwater, creation of a policy statement on interbasin
transfers, determination of specific criteria, terms, and
conditions for approval of interbasin transfer permits,
setting a distance criterion for interbasin water transfers,
expansion of the public notice provision, inclusion of an
emergency drought provision, and the addition of a basinof-
origin protection provision.
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2003-04
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