Settling the right to tap a lake
American City&County
Recently, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson issued a shocking ruling on the ongoing conflict between Georgia, Alabama and Florida over use of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-controlled Lake Lanier and the Chattahoochee River Basin that has Georgia officials facing a three-year deadline to obtain Congressional authorization to use the lake as a water supply. Kathy Robb, partner with the firm's environmental group, noted that the possible national implications of Congress' decision on Lake Lanier would be determined on a case-by-case basis. Robb's practice focuses on energy and environmental litigation, regulation, and counseling before Federal, state, and administrative courts, involving water, solid and hazardous waste, nuclear materials, wetlands, endangered species, sustainability, and environmental transaction issues, especially in the energy and manufacturing sectors