Comments on: Atlanta May Not Become Waterless Wasteland After All

By: Donald Baxter, Iowa City, IA

Donald Baxter, Iowa City, IA — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:27:52 +0000

If Atlanta prevails with this case, the metro areas sprawl can continue unabated. How can this possibly ever be considered good news. Georgia and Metro Atlanta have displayed nothing but bad faith and poor planning on top of unwillingness to conserve and treat water adequately. Atlanta may win this case ultimately, but it sure doesn’t deserve to win.

By: Naaman Gibbetts

Naaman Gibbetts — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:16:46 +0000

I have to wonder–aside from the whole lead-thing–what the Romans thought.

By: 10x10 In

10x10 In — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:47:33 +0000

Nancy is exactly right. And the 40mgd from Gwinnett going into the lake is very, very highly treated and filtered. For many parameters, it is actually “cleaner” than some of the natural inflows feeding the lake.

By: NancyB

NancyB — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:49:19 +0000

You know the old joke in water use? “I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that in the future we’ll all be drinking treated sewage. The bad news is there won’t be enough to go around.”

Most places, we’re already at the “drinking treated sewage” part, it’s just a matter of how direct the link is between a sewage outfall and the next water intake downstream.

By: Ridgelandistan

Ridgelandistan — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:38:39 +0000

Good question.

Our drinking water resevoir doubles as a sewage polishing pond for Gwinnett. What could possibly go wrong?

“…waste-water treatment plant that began operation last year in Gwinnett and which is returning 40 million gallons of water to the lake every day.”

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:47:59 +0000

But when is someone going to do something about all the sewage spills??