One element of the ongoing fight over water between Georgia and its neighbors has been resolved.
Earlier this week, the state of Georgia and the Army Corps of Engineers signed a contract giving rights to some of the water in Lake Lanier to communities in the north metro area.
Though Gwinnett, Hall and Forsyth counties, the city of Cumming and the city of Buford have been pulling their water from Lanier, there hadn’t been any formal contract for them to do it before this week.
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