Georgia Senate passes resolution to move state line!
ATLANTA, Georgia (PNN) - March 25, 2013 - Georgia senators today passed a resolution calling for the correction of survey areas along the state’s northern border in a 48-2 vote, a news release states.
“The Tennessee Valley Authority has identified the Tennessee River as a likely source of water for North Georgia,” said Senator David Shafer (Duluth) as he presented the resolution. “Yet the state of Tennessee has used mismarked boundary lines to block our access to this important waterway.”
Georgia House Resolution 4 proposes a settlement of the boundary dispute, based on almost 200-year-old survey errors, clarifying Georgia’s access to Tennessee River water. It directs the state’s attorney general to sue to gain control of the entire area south of the 35th parallel if no agreement is reached with Tennessee, the Georgia Senate Press Office release states.
House Resolution 4 now returns to the House for agreement on amendments made by the Senate.
The Tennessee Valley Authority must approve interbasin water transfers that take water out of the Tennessee River watershed. TVA says it has not recommended using the river as a primary water source for North Georgia.
"We aren’t certain where Senator Shafer got his information, but TVA is not involved in this discussion at this point," TVA spokesman Scott Brooks said.
