The City of Griffin water system, a regional water provider, is implementing changes to reservoir management and drought response reflective of conditions during the 2016 drought, in addition to studying potential changes to reservoir management to improve basin streamflow. Clayton County Water Authority is engaged in system-wide long-range master planning regarding its complex water infrastructure, which includes six treatment plants and constructed wetlands in two river basins. Fayette County Water System is reforming some of its reservoir management regimes and developing new customer water conservation efforts that may have impacts on streamflow especially during dry seasons and dry years. Independent of the 2016 drought per se, multiple water systems in the basin are engaged in planning exercises that are likely to have beneficial impacts on water resources and environmental flows in the basin in both drought and non-drought conditions. ![]() These and other characteristics had implications for reservoir management and municipal drought response which have provided new “lessons learned” even to highly drought-experienced public water systems. For instance, it developed rapidly following wet conditions, and was associated with extended high-temperature periods. The 2016 drought was climatically noteworthy on a variety of fronts. Session Organizer: Ben Emanuel, American Rivers, Decatur, GA 30030Īfter managing through three multi-year droughts since the year 2000, water providers in the Piedmont portion of the Flint River basin met new challenges once again with the severe drought of 2016. Laura Benz, Laura Benz Law LLP, The Role of Reservoirs in Georgia’s Water Futureġ.5: New Perspectives on Drought and Water Management in the Upper Flint River Basin Panel Lewis Jones, King & Spalding, Water Wars Involving the State and the Corps Hutton Brown, GreenLaw, Recent Georgia Water and Wastewater Lawsuits Each speaker will offer relatively a short observation or a point or two, followed by a structured panel discussion on common themes and continuing disputesĭouglas Henderson, Troutman Sanders, Chair and Moderator This panel, composed of lawyers and scientists, will summarize and analyze the top water law and litigation developments in the state over the past several two years. Even disputes over surface water runoff are at an all-time high. And citizen suits by environmental groups are now the norm to enforce the Clean Water Act. Corps of Engineers over flows in the Chattahoochee. The State of Florida is suing the State of Georgia over water consumption. Session Organizer: Douglas Henderson, Troutman Sanders, 600 Peachtree Street, NE Suite 5200, Atlanta, GA 30308Īt no time in Georgia's history have there been more disputes over water quality and water quantity. Georgakakos Georgia Water Resources Institute, Georgia Tech ![]() ![]() (1.1.4) Value of adaptive drought management for the ACF River Basin Martin Kistenmacher and Aris P. (1.1.3) Regional water planning: Funding implementation Leigh Elkins Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia (1.1.2) The policy process: A critical assessment of water policy making in the State of Georgiaĭanielle Jensen-Ryan and Laura German UGA Behrend Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Watershed Protection Branch (1.1.1) Updates on regional water planning in Georgia Jennifer H. 101-307) or the other conference sponsors.ġ.1 Georgia Water Planning Update Presentations The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia, the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Research Institutes Authorization Act of 1990 (P.L. This material was published the River Basin Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602. Todd Rasmussen, UGA Forestry and Natural Resources Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway
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