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As posted in the Gainesville Times
By Ashley Fielding
afielding@gainesvilletimes.com

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue called on state legislators Wednesday to incentivize water conservation.

Perdue unveiled the Georgia Water Stewardship Act of 2010, which will require water-efficient plumbing fixtures in all newly constructed residential and commercial buildings and provide loan incentives for local governments building reservoirs and expanding existing reservoirs.

In a statement, Perdue called the legislation a “road map towards being better stewards of our limited natural resources.”

The bill will be introduced in both the state House and the Senate and will be sponsored by the Ross Tolleson, chairman of the Senate Natural Resources and the Environment Committee, and Lynn Smith, chairwoman of the same committee in the House.

The bill would become effective in July 2012.

From that point forward:

•Newly constructed residential and commercial buildings would be required to have water-efficient fixtures, and new industrial buildings would be required to use water-efficient cooling towers.
•Each unit in newly constructed apartment complexes would have to have its own meter so individual water consumption can be recorded.
•The state’s Environmental Protection Division would be required to set standards for leak detection for medium- and large-sized public water systems.
•Surface water withdrawals made by farmers would be monitored.
The bill also tackles the state’s existing buildings, instructing eight different state agencies to develop incentives in their loan and grant program for local governments and water providers to retrofit existing buildings with water-efficient plumbing fixtures or install drought-tolerant landscapes. [click to continue…]

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Commissioners approve Lake Lanier Islands Parkway road name change

as posted in the Gainesville Times
By Melissa Weinman
mweinman@gainesvilletimes.com
POSTED  Jan. 28, 2010 11:30 p.m.
The Hall County Board of Commissioners on Thursday approved changing the name of Holiday and Friendship roads to Lanier Islands Parkway.
“This probably should have been done 15 years ago when they built the new road,” Commissioner Bobby Banks said.
Nobody was at the meeting [...]

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Lake Lanier – 1073

As written in the AJC
Lanier and Allatoona boosters want lake levels permanently raised
By Dan Chapman
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Scarred by the drought, and fearful of a permanent reduction in water levels, homeowners, boaters and marina operators on lakes Lanier and Allatoona are pushing Washington to raise the reservoirs.
For Lanier, the goal is 2 more feet of water [...]

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November Lake Lanier water levels

From 11alive.com
Lake Lanier, Ga. — Lake Lanier finds itself between a dam and a wet place.
Usually this time of year, Lanier has plenty of room to catch and hold the run-off from the winter and spring rains.
But today the lake is above its full level. The Army Corps of Engineers may have to choose between [...]

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Lake Lanier water release and distribution

The Corps of Engineering has started an Environmental Impact Statement for Lake Lanier.
From Access North Ga
Corps revises Lanier’s environmental impact statement
By Staff
MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is revising the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for its updated water control manuals for the the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin.
Corps officials said [...]

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