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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Communications Office
Room 609 Legislative Office Building Atlanta, Georgia 30334 404.656.0305 1.877.222.2768
For Immediate Release
May 1, 2005
Speaker Richardson appoints State Representatives Lynn Smith, Ron Stephens, Terry Barnard, Bob Hanner, and Buddy Carter to the House
Coastal Georgia Sound Science Initiative Study Committee AtlantaSpeaker of the House Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) appointed State Representatives Lynn Smith (R-Newnan), Ron Stephens (RSavannah), Terry Barnard (R-Glennville), Bob Hanner (D-Parrott), and Buddy Carter (R-Pooler) to the House Coastal Georgia Sound Science Initiative Study Committee.
The committee shall undertake a study of the conditions, needs, issues,
challenges, and opportunities relating to support development of a related
final water-management strategy. All field studies of the initiative have
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been completed, approximately 41 peer-reviewed scientific reports have
been published to date, a comprehensive ground-water and surface-water
Brent Cranfield
monitoring network has been established in Georgia. ground-water modeling capable of indicating where and when saltwater intrusion will
404-656-0305
occur is in development and initial results will be available in the spring of
bcranfield@legis.state.ga. 2005. So the cost-effectiveness of various methods of stopping saltwater
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intrusion needs further study. A first draft of a final strategy and public hearings are scheduled for the summer of 2005, and a revised draft of a
final strategy is due in December, 2005.
The committee was created by the passage of House Resolution 494, authored by Rep. Lynn Smith, who will also be serving as Chair of the study committee. The study committee will end its meeting on December 1, 2005.
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