Atlanta and Tri-State compact
Water is becoming a hard-to-find resource in the southeastern states of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. The Chattahoochee River is one of the usable water supplies for the three states, and it has now become a such a problem as to sharing the water that a compact was reached in 1997. The compact that was signed by President Clinton involving the Chattahoochee River is called the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Rivers (ACF) Act. This compact was signed to eventually create the ACF Commissions, which is the group delegated to sort out the issues between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida concerning the water supply of the three states. These issues need to be sorted out soon, for the situation is getting worse as the population in the city of Atlanta grows. The Chattahoochee is constantly being polluted by the growing population of the city of Atlanta. The city is faced with the problem of using t
he water without polluting too much of it for the cities that are using it downstream. Alabama is mad because they are getting all the pollution from Atlanta, and Florida is mad because they are getting it from two states. Research by the Committee has been underway since the beginning. They have been working with such organizations as the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Geological Survey, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service and Southeastern Power Administration, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ACF Committees for each state of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida are each researching and doing surveys for different areas to determine the availability of water from other sources, and the agricultural and urban water demands, including the quality of the water and the number of plants using the rivers for power. Water itself is not a scarce resource in the t
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