Draiiiiiiinage!!!!!
Posted on 02/26/2008 12:32:37 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
We-uns will give 'em water..
LOL
The border was set up in error, but there is no "reestablishing" here. The border has been established this way all along.
Draiiiiiiinage!!!!!
“tomorrow they might come for our Jack Daniels or George Dickel”
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Yikes...
LOL
The local radio stations have been announcing the collection of bottled water all day...
Tomorrow the worthy citzens of Atlanta get water...
in bottles...
LOL
Georgia ought to just build an underground pipe and suck the river dry
Draiiiiiiinage!!!!!
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That was considered...
Atlanta may only need ‘big straw
Years ago a Georgia planner joked, half seriously, that the Peach State should just “stick a straw” in the Tennessee River to bring water to thirsty Atlanta.
The analogy may turn out to be easier than anyone thought.
Regional cavers are suggesting on their blogs that Georgia take advantage of Tennessee River water backed up years ago by TVA dams into Nickajack Cave and some connected caverns. They say water captured from the Tennessee River flows underground into Georgia and Alabama. If engineers could drill in, then courts might have to decide if the water is groundwater or impounded Tennessee River water.
Tennessee’s Department of Environment and Conservation officials acknowledge the cave drilling idea is a possibility.
There may be a river water connection to cave streams in Georgia, said Tisha Calabrese-Benton, spokeswoman for the department.
“Do we know whether there is a specific place in Georgia where someone could drill and hit an underground lake that existed in some capacity before Nickajack was flooded and is now charged with Tennessee River water? No. But the department believes that moving Tennessee River water out of the Tennessee River watershed would require permission from both TVA and the Army Corps of Engineers,” she said.
Ms. Calabrese-Benton said Tennessee officials believe TVA and the corps would “be protective of the resource in all states.”
TVA spokesman Gil Francis said such a plan almost certainly would involve environmental impact studies, federal reviews known for lengthy delays.
Nickajack Cave is a protected area as the habitat of an endangered species of bat, he said. And even if Georgia could drill to water in a connected underground cave near Nickajack, experts would have to show where the water came from. Even in groundwater, should dye tests or other means show it is Tennessee River water or a river source water, an environmental impact study would have to be conducted to show the impact on the river, he said.
“What they (Georgians) are asking us to do is divert water that goes to Huntsville and many other cities and instead send it to Atlanta,” Mr. Francis said. “We’ve heard a lot of discussion about moving the border, but even if you did, it doesn’t change the watershed. If you transfer water from that watershed, it will affect reservoir elevations and TVA’s abilities to do what it does. And you’re still talking about interbasin transfer.”
In 2000, Tennessee lawmakers passed the Interbasin Water Transfer Act requiring the state to issue permits to any entity moving water out of the Tennessee River watershed, which is the 40,000-square-mile area where rainfall naturally flows ultimately to the river.
Dodd Galbreath, who as a policy planner in the administration of former Gov. Don Sundquist helped push through Tennessee’s interbasin water transfer permitting law, said officials then wrote the law with specific language to account for “conjunctive” relationships or connections between surface and groundwater.
“Any removal of groundwater that results in a reduction of flow in the Tennessee River counts,” Mr. Galbreath said Friday. “We were very careful to regulate the ‘effect’, not just the action.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975034/posts?page=38#38
Tennessee sounds kind of worried, LOL.
No,
we jest ead a big ol’ rain storm last night...
The piggies dun drunk their fill...
so ez now we-uns gots lot to spar
LOL
LOL
And thus began the Civil War II...
Whereas, it is feared that if today they come for our river, tomorrow they might come for our Jack Daniels or George Dickel,
God Bless Lem Motlow
And thus began the Civil War II...
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HUH...
Thet thar es tha War betwixt tha States...
The War of Nor’th’n Aggresson.., y’all...
South East Tennessee will rise again
LOL
I’ll drink to that.
It’s largely been forgotten in the area, but most east Tennesseans and Kentuckians were pro-Union, or at least anti-Confederacy. Much as in West Virginia.
Yes that is so...
Hamilton County and Bradley county were pro-Union...
And north Georgians. Union County is named that for a reason.
Nothing like a little ridicule to lighten an otherwise odd and improbable situation.
Did not know that, thanks.
I believe there were also parts of north Alabama that were pro-Union.
I read somewhere that every state except South Carolina produced at least one (white) Union regiments from its citizens.
LOL
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