Sunday, December 9, 2012
Joe Cook, executive director & riverkeeper for the Coosa River Basin Initiative, contends that cronyism has guided state funds aimed at water projects.
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Last month, the Georgia Water Coalition released its “Dirty Dozen” report highlighting the “most egregious offenses” to Georgia’s water resources. Gov. Nathan Deal’s administration, which was the target of much of the report, responded by calling the 185-member coalition of environmental, hunting and fishing, business, landowner and faith-based groups a “liberal interest group.” Label the messengers “liberal,” so the thinking goes in some quarters of this state, and the message will be ignored. But a careful look at the Water Coalition’s “Dirty Dozen” shows that the message is about dirty politics as much as dirty water. Within the report, the so-called “liberal interest group” highlights $213 million in government spending that should …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The paddle trips will offer participants a look at the area's history and ecology.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The Coosa River Basin Initiative will host a pair of canoe/kayak paddles on the Etowah River on Saturday and Sunday, giving participants a chance to explore a 17-mile section of the river in Bartow County to celebrate Earth Day weekend. On Saturday, the local Riverkeeper group will lead a 10-mile trip from Euharlee Road to U.S. 411. Sunday, they will run a 7-mile trip from “Floyd’s Landing” to Euharlee Road. “The Etowah is one of North Georgia’s natural treasures, so there’s no better place to celebrate Earth Day,” Joe Cook, CRBI executive director & Riverkeeper, said in a news release. The Earth Day paddle trips will give participants an opportunity to see Native American fish weirs—rock dams constructed 500-1,000 years ago to capture …
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Joe Cook, executive director & riverkeeper for the Coosa River Basin Initiative, contends that Paulding's plans for the Richland Creek Reservoir may create a "dam to nowhere."
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Dear Editor, Paulding County’s Richland Creek Reservoir has been a decade in the making, and based on the opposition generated from the county’s most recent iteration of its coveted water supply project, the county should do some soul-searching as to its most sustainable water supply options before it builds a new dam. In December and January, the County’s reservoir plan was poked, prodded and picked apart by federal agencies, neighboring governments and a host of conservation organizations during a mandatory public comment period. Those groups delivered page upon page of largely negative comments opposing the project to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). The city of Rome requested that the Corps hold a public hearing and demanded …
