State regulators are considering the first significant easing of a decade-old moratorium on new or expanded withdrawals in portions of southwest Georgia’s Flint River Basin.
The state Environmental Protection Division has proposed letting farmers tap into the Floridan Aquifer for the limited purpose of using irrigation to protect crops like the state’s prized blueberries from bouts of frost.
The narrow exception to the moratorium is being mulled two years after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Georgia in the long-running battle with Florida over water access and usage.
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