State of Georgia Receives Another Victory in Tri-state Water Wars
Atlanta partner William Droze was mentioned in a September 19 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about a federal appeals court handing the State of Georgia another victory in the decades-long tri-state water wars, refusing a request by Alabama and Florida for a new hearing on the use of Lake Lanier as a drinking water source for metro Atlanta.
Droze, who is lead council for Gwinnett County, Ga., in the water litigation, said he hopes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which built and operates the lake, will recognize return flows to the lake as a component of the allocation, as the court suggested. Last year, Gwinnett County completed work on a $72 million pipeline that can send 40 million gallons of treated water a day back into the lake, the sole source of water for its 800,000 residents.