Florida Vs Georgia Water Dispute

2018 was a united states supreme court case.

Florida vs georgia water dispute. Federal court has affirmed the corps auth. Waters in the area have been stressed by the population growth of atlanta over previous decades. The court should reject florida s request to limit how georgia uses water from shared. The tri state water dispute is a 21st century water use conflict among the states of georgia alabama and florida over flows in the apalachicola chattahoochee flint river basin and the alabama coosa tallapoosa river basin.

Florida has made a legally sufficient showing as to the possibility of fashioning an effective remedial decree equitably apportioning the water from an interstate river basin. Washington the supreme court wednesday handed florida an unlikely victory in its decades long fight with georgia over water rights ruling a court appointed special master was too strict in. Case remanded 5 4 in an opinion by justice breyer on june 27 2018. Ignored the plain effects of water consumption in georgia.

Georgia has it and florida which is downstream from georgia says it s not. For three decades georgia and florida have been battling over how to share a precious resource. For three decades florida and georgia have been entangled in a legal battle over the apalachicola basin with florida claiming it is not getting a fair usage of the water. The states filed suit in 1990 in their conflict over the water supply.

It is an original jurisdiction case in a long running dispute over waters within the acf river basin running from the north georgia mountains through metro atlanta to the florida panhandle which is managed by the united states army corps of engineers. Florida repeatedly noted that georgia failed to address the court s decision in a variety of ways finally arguing that u nder the framework established by the. A decades long dispute between florida and georgia over each state s water rights in the apalachicola chattahoochee flint river basin acf river basin is heading back to the united states supreme court where florida is asking the justices to put a cap on georgia s water use. In its supplemental response brief florida argued that georgia disregarded the court s mandate on equitable apportionment principles relying primarily on the dissent.

Soon the supreme court will again consider a three decade dispute over a precious resource water. Army corps of engineers has regulated water flow for the entire chattahoochee river from lake lanier in forsyth county georgia to alabama and florida. And understated the benefits of a decree to florida while overstating the costs to georgia.