This case will decide whether the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may evade its duty to analyze the devastating environmental impact of its actions on Florida’s Apalachicola River, floodplain, and bay, and to mitigate its actions’ adverse effects in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin.
“We’re confident that Florida will be able to meet the Supreme Court’s test to show that reining in Georgia’s wasteful water consumption upstream will provide much needed freshwater to Florida downstream.”
This action challenges the inadequacy of an Environmental Impact Statement prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“the Corps”) in connection with its update of a 1958 Master Water Control Manual (“Master WCM”) governing the operation of federal dams and reservoirs in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (“ACF Basin”)
The Apalachicola River basin has been described as one of six “biodiversity hotspots” in the United tates. The Apalachicola River basin has been described as one of six “biodiversity hotspots” in the United States.
