The US Army Corps of Engineers had the authority to reallocate water from Georgia’s Allatoona Lake dam and reservoir project, a federal district court ruled, tossing the state of Alabama’s challenge to the decision.
Alabama failed to prove that the agency needed congressional approval before finalizing a management plan, the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday. The state, whose Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin is supplied by Allatoona Lake, filed a secondary complaint against the final decision in 2021 before the court upheld a previous amendment to the dam’s management plan in 2023.
Judge Loren L. AliKhan said ...
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