Atlanta Water Supplier Sues U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers
A major metro Atlanta water supplier is suing the federal government, claiming the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is not allowing it water that the state of Georgia has allocated to it.
The Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority supplies water to Cobb and Paulding counties and parts of Fulton and Cherokee. It claims that even though it pays for storage in Lake Allatoona, and even though Lake Allatoona is full, the Corps is telling the water authority that it does not have water available to it in the reservoir. The water authority also claims that the Corps is not giving it credit for the water that the authority puts into the lake, either from another reservoir upstream, or from its water treatment facility.
No one is at risk of running out of water, said Glenn Page, the general manager of the Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority, but the water authority could have to build an expensive pipeline if the Corps wins the suit.
“We won’t be using any more or less water, but the cost to the public and the impact to the environment will increase unnecessarily,” he said.
The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
The U.S. Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment.
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