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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 
 
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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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