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Old 08-01-2019, 07:03 AM
 
Location: Aishalton, GY
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Atlanta's water supply comes from Lake Lanier. https://lakelanier.org/tag/water-supply/
No need for wells.


If the surveyors had done their job properly your portion of TN would be part of GA and TN river water would also have been used by every community downstream.
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Old 08-01-2019, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Chattanooga, TN
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Atlanta's water supply comes from Lake Lanier. https://lakelanier.org/tag/water-supply/
No need for wells.
Both Lake Lanier and Allatoona Lake. But they were built in the 1950's before Atlanta's surge in growth. They aren't large enough to supply Atlanta's massive population and industrial needs through the deepest droughts. You actually do need wells, but they won't do any good because there aren't any pockets of groundwater to tap. They needed to build more reservoirs last century to store more water; that would be almost impossible these days, because any water you catch and use is currently being used by someone else downstream.

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If the surveyors had done their job properly your portion of TN would be part of GA and TN river water would also have been used by every community downstream.
True, my house is south of the 35th parallel and should be in Georgia.

But it's hard to get approval for mass cross-system water transfers these days, unlike early in last century when Los Angeles stole all the water from everyone else. It's long proven that when a large city starts sucking up water they just don't know when to quit; that's why the Colorado River no longer flows to the ocean.

Even if the border is moved it's unlikely Atlanta will be allowed to stick a big straw into the Tennessee. Not so much this year, but in years past some of the big power plants downstream of Chattanooga have had to partially shut down due to low flow.
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Old 08-02-2019, 05:22 PM
 
Location: Aishalton, GY
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Both Lake Lanier and Allatoona Lake. But they were built in the 1950's before Atlanta's surge in growth. They aren't large enough to supply Atlanta's massive population and industrial needs through the deepest droughts. You actually do need wells, but they won't do any good because there aren't any pockets of groundwater to tap. They needed to build more reservoirs last century to store more water; that would be almost impossible these days, because any water you catch and use is currently being used by someone else downstream.

That maybe true, the getting a well permit is not allowed anymore. As long as there is available county water you can't dig.


Florida put up the stink about Chattahoochee water being used all the along the waterway and that they weren't getting enough for the oyster production on the Apalachicola. That's because the namby-pamby environmentalists won't allow a pipeline from Wakulla Springs to the bay. There's 40,000 gals of clean fresh water going into the ocean that could be used for the oysters. Instead they sued Georgia for more water. The Grand Master of the Courts has ruled against them twice - citing the available spring water available to them.
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Old 08-05-2019, 06:34 PM
 
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I'm going to visit East TN and the smokies for my first time. Very excited I can't wait.
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Old 08-06-2019, 04:39 AM
 
Location: Putnam County, TN
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I'm going to visit East TN and the smokies for my first time. Very excited I can't wait.
Have fun! Enjoy the rainforest!
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Old 08-10-2019, 08:05 AM
 
Location: Knoxville, TN
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I'm going to visit East TN and the smokies for my first time. Very excited I can't wait.
East Tennessee is beautiful. Enjoy your trip!
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Old 08-10-2019, 08:12 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Lay of the land from the Foothills Parkway and don't forget to drive the new link!

Rainforest in Tennessee??-grsm_terrain_features.jpg

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Old 08-14-2019, 07:00 AM
 
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East Tennessee is beautiful. Enjoy your trip!
It was a great trip. We thoroughly enjoyed TN.
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Old 08-15-2019, 12:49 PM
 
Location: Putnam County, TN
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It was a great trip. We thoroughly enjoyed TN.
Great!

Anyways, what does everyone else think of there being a rainforest in Tennessee?
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Old 08-15-2019, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Chattanooga, TN
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I've lived here for 14 years and had no idea about the designation until this thread. But having done a lot of hiking in the Smokies, I don't doubt it at all.

It can be incredibly humid with frequent rain and frequent low clouds/fog (hence the nickname "smokies"). Lots of amphibians (salamanders!), mushrooms, and dense foliage. Lots of springs and flowing creeks. On some sections of the AT it's as if you are hiking through a tunnel of rhododendron with sides and a roof. Gorgeous when in bloom!
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