A coalition of North Georgia water-users wants to create a 15-county master plan to protect and develop supplies as the region grows.
At a Tuesday meeting in Calhoun, the Northwest Georgia Regional Water Resources Partnership will ask permit-holders to match a $300,000 federal grant to help create a watershed assessment plan for the Coosa, Tennessee and Tallapoosa river basins.
Permit holders range from governments providing public water and sewer services to industries, such as Temple-Inland and Georgia Power Co., that use the resource in daily operations.
“This will help all of us — all of the permit-holders and all of us who live in the basins,” said Floyd County Commissioner Jerry Jennings, who chairs the partnership and represents the Coosa basin on the Georgia Water Council.
“It would probably cost about $1.5 million if everyone does it one at a time,” said Bill Steiner, executive director of the Coosa Valley Regional Development Center. “But it will cost $300,000 if everyone comes together as a political group.”
For more on this report, see Sunday’s Rome News-Tribune.
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