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CITY OF ALMA v. U.S.

Nos. CV589-51, CV582-98.

744 F.Supp. 1546 (1990)

CITY OF ALMA and Bacon County, Georgia, Plaintiffs, v. The UNITED STATES of America and The United States Environmental Protection Agency, Defendants. NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. John O. MARSH, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Georgia, Waycross Division.

August 24, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Jimmy Boatright, M. Theodore Solomon, II, Solomon & Edgar, Alma, Ga., James S. Stokes, Sydney S. Cleland, Robert D. Mowrey, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

W. Christian Schumann, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Environmental Defense Section, Washington, D.C., Henry L. Whisenhunt, Jr., Augusta, Ga., Ruth Bell, Catherine Winer, Water Div., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., Edwin R. Schwartz, Asst. Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.

ORDER

EDENFIELD, Chief Judge.

The case before the Court represents the culmination of nearly two decades of struggle on the part of the officials of Alma, Georgia, the plaintiffs in this action, to build a recreational lake, aptly named Lake Alma, in Bacon County. Almost since its inception, the project has been opposed by environmental groups, certain citizens, and a few federal agencies, particularly the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA" or "the Agency...

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