In a letter to Isakson and Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss dated September 3, Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), said the corps is preparing to implement updated water control plans and manuals that will conform to a federal court order, "assuming that it withstands appeal."
She summarized by saying "the Corps has revised the scope of its efforts to update the ACF water control plans and manuals by proposing to implement updated manuals that conform to the district court's order when it goes into full effect in July 2012, assuming that the district court ourder is unaffected by pending appeals."
Darcy was responding to a letter sent to the Corps by Isakson and Chambliss and others in Congress in July concerning the update of the federal water control plans and manuals for the ACF on the first anniversary of a federal judge's ruling that, unless Congress decides otherwise by July 2012, will prohibit parts of Georgia from using Lake Lanier as a drinking water source. (See earlier story.)
Isakson said "As Judge Magnuson said, and Senator Chambliss and I agree with, 'there is no reason the Corps should limit its analysis in the ACF Basin.' A document that doesn't take into account current and future water supply withdrawals from Lake Lanier as well as other points in the system is useless."
Isakson went on to say "When we met with the military leadership of the Corps, they told us that they would run a dual track analysis that takes water supply withdrawals into account, because they anticipate withdrawals from Lanier in the future. It is unfortunate that the Corps' senior civilian leadership does not agree."
"A document that doesn
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