Georgia trying to steal our land/water

#101
#101
GAVol said:
This article is interesting. Mapmaker's border error raises new water war front | ajc.com

I think the territorial claim is goofy, but it seems that this is not something that just came up. Ithas been discussed on and off since the 1800's.

The accompanying Google Earth Pic showing the boundary's margin of error from above is amazing.

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Just found out over the last several days that the Northern border of Maryland and the Southern border of Pennsylvania should be at the 40th parallel. Yet if it actually were, North Philly and all points south would be in the state of Maryland...

If you're gonna have the courts try to resolve this error, then there are plenty of state boundary lines that will be contested...
 
#102
#102
Rasputin_Vol said:
Just found out over the last several days that the Northern border of Maryland and the Southern border of Pennsylvania should be at the 40th parallel. Yet if it actually were, North Philly and all points sount would be in the state of Maryland...

If you're gonna have the courts try to resolve this error, then there are plenty of state boundary lines that will be contested...
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If Maryland ever has a drastic shortage of cheesesteaks, I'm sure you'll be reading about them trying to fix that mistake too.
 
#105
#105
GA can have the water and the border, as long as it agrees to take Memphis as part of the deal.
 
#109
#109
get a long straw, stick one end in the Okeefenokee and the other in Athens...UGA sucks so hard they should be able to drain the swamp in a week.
 
#112
#112
Camak, a professor at the University of Georgia, in his "Report on the Boundary between Georgia and Alabama" written eight years after the Georgia-Tennessee boundary survey, states apologetically:
"In 1818, I requested Gov. Rabun to procure such an apparatus as would be necessary to enable me to perform my duties with the greatest possible accuracy. The shortness of the time would not admit of sending abroad for them, & hence I was under the necessity of using such as could be procured at Athens. The instrument, a sextant, was a very good one, of English construction. The situation of the observatory, on the top on a mountain, was favorable to accuracy. But the astronomical tables which I was compelled to use were not such as I could have wished them to be."
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The Camak Stone, thus, according to the scant record that exists, marked the Western terminus of the boundary between Georgia and Tennessee. There is no legal dispute that the 1818 Boundary Commission marked the "thirty-fifth parallel" as they calculated it using instruments and ephemeris, by their own admission, that were insufficient to achieve the accuracy they desired. As with all original boundary surveys, however, their line as monumented, still holds as the true line no matter how "inaccurate" as compared to the record evidence.
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So in essence, if Georgia wouldn't have been in such a hurry and if they hadn't been so cheap to not get the right equipment, and if they had gotten someone that wasn't a graduate of UGA, then all of this could have been done correctly 200 years ago?
 
#114
#114
Water war: ‘They’re idiots,’ TN lawmaker fumes at GA : State and Regional News : Knoxville News Sentinel

Some funny quotes:

Tennessee Rep. Gerald McCormick, a Chattanooga Republican, called the resolution “silliest thing I’ve ever seen any group of Republicans do.”

“I’m embarrassed that they would embarrass the party like that,” he said. “They’re idiots.”
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“I can pass a resolution today that says I get to have my neighbor’s house, but that doesn’t make it so,” said Sen. Andy Berke, a Chattanooga Democrat.

“Georgia needs to be looking at responsible solutions for how to deal with water and land-use planning, rather than irresponsible land grabs,” he said.

McCormick said there’s little for Tennessee lawmakers to do in response to the move by their counterparts in Georgia.

“Only ridicule them and laugh at them,” he said. “And that’s what we’ll be doing.”
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#118
#118
This is funny. Read the proclamation. It's the written version of a bitch-slap. Georgia sucks.

2/26/2008 - Chattanooga Sending Truck Load Of Water To Atlanta - Breaking News - Chattanoogan.com

Chattanooga Sending Truck Load Of Water To Atlanta
“Give Our Georgia Friends A Drink Day” Proclaimed
posted February 26, 2008

The city of Chattanooga, facing a possible Georgia land grab as part of an effort to get access to the Tennessee River, is sending a truck load of bottled water to Atlanta.

Mayor Ron Littlefield said the water will be delivered on Wednesday by his aide Matt Lea wearing a coonskin cap.

The mayor has officially proclaimed Feb. 27, 2008, as “Give our Georgia Friends a Drink Day.” The proclamation comes as a result of the Georgia Legislature passing a joint resolution that seeks to pursue reestablishing the boundary between Georgia and Tennessee.

The truck load of bottled water along with the proclamation will be delivered to the Georgia Legislature Wednesday morning.

“Please know that we are willing to help our neighbors to the south with this complimentary truck load of water,” said Mayor Littlefield. “And along with this water, we want to send Georgia legislators a message that focusing on conservation efforts would be much more productive than an ill-conceived land and water grab.”

The water is being donated by the Chattanooga Choo Choo and others. The truck is on loan from a local automobile dealership.

If you would like to donate water to be included, please drop off sealed bottles of water to City Hall, 1st floor, 101 East 11th Street, Chattanooga, until 4:30 p.m. today.

Mayor Littlefield said on Talk Radio on Tuesday that building a pipeline from the Tennessee River to Atlanta would be cost prohibitive.

He said it is uphill to Atlanta and the pipeline project would be the largest public works project ever in the Southeast.




PROCLAMATION



WHEREAS, it has come to pass that the heavens are shut up and a drought of Biblical proportions has been visited upon the Southern United States, and



WHEREAS, the parched and dry conditions have weighed heavily upon the State of Georgia and sorely afflicted those who inhabit the Great City of Atlanta, and



WHEREAS, the leaders of Georgia have assembled like the Children of Israel in the desert, grumbled among themselves and have begun to cast longing eyes toward the north, coveting their neighbor’s assets, and



WHEREAS, the lack of water has led some misguided souls to seek more potent refreshment or for other reasons has resulted in irrational and outrageous actions seeking to move a long established and peaceful boundary, and



WHEREAS, it is deemed better to light a candle than curse the darkness, and better to offer a cool, wet kiss of friendship rather than face a hot and angry legislator gone mad from thirst, and



Whereas, it is feared that if today they come for our river, tomorrow they might come for our Jack Daniels or George Dickel,



NOW THEREFORE, In the interest of brotherly love, peace, friendship, mutual prosperity, citywide self promotion, political grandstanding and all that



I Ron Littlefield, Mayor of the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee,



Do hereby Proclaim that Wednesday, February 27, 2008 shall be known as



“Give Our Georgia Friends a Drink Day”
 
#120
#120
water for women....send up the employees of the Cheetah, Pink pony and select other establishments, select undergrads from UGA and some of those cuties I know are lurking in Banks and Habersham counties and we'll let you wet your whistle
 
#122
#122
Plano Vol said:
water for women....send up the employees of the Cheetah, Pink pony and select other establishments, select undergrads from UGA and some of those cuties I know are lurking in Banks and Habersham counties and we'll let you wet your whistle
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I think we might be able arrange some sort of transaction :pimp_2:
 
#124
#124
The U.S. District Court has ruled that most of the ATL metro area may not withdraw or store water from Lake Lanier.
 
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