TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The decadeslong legal fight among Florida, Georgia and Alabama over water has ended — but litigation involving the Chattahoochee River is not completely over.
Details: A federal appeals court last week granted Alabama’s request to dismiss a lawsuit over the operation of federal hydropower reservoirs on the Chattahoochee River that also supply water to Georgia cities.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the lawsuit after Alabama, Georgia and the Army Corps of Engineers struck a deal in 2023 over water flowing south to Florida.
But an appeal filed by Florida environmental groups remains pending before the court. The state of Florida, which had joined Alabama in a 1990 lawsuit over the reservoirs, is not a party in the case.
