The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Georgia’s chance to revive a 2003 agreement between the state and federal authorities that set aside a portion of Lake Lanier to supply drinking water to metro Atlanta.
Without comment, the justices Monday let stand the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s reversal of a lower court’s approval of the 2003 pact between Georgia and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. That deal would have earmarked up to a quarter of Lake Lanier to be used only as drinking-water supply for more than 3 million metro Atlanta residents.
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