The state of Alabama has formally dismissed its legal challenge against several Georgia groups in an important water agreement from the tri-state water wars.
On Feb. 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted a request from the state of Alabama to dismiss its appeal challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ water control plans for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin.
That river basin covers north Georgia, flows through Alabama and lets out to the ocean in Florida’s Apalachicola Bay — and the states have been arguing over metro-Atlanta’s use of that water for decades.
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