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 ture, and our society are structured around our water
 resources. How we manage these water resources will
 determine for us, and future generations the quality of
 life we will have for years to come.
 If negotiations fail, he wrote, "...It is a certainty that there will be a
 long, expensive and very arbitrary period of disputes and litigation..."
 The court system will supplant the authority the Com-
 pacts granted to the Governors. Additionally, if we turn
 to the court system for judgement, we lose the advantage
 of the vast and valuable expertise that has come together
 to work towards the success of the Compacts. The nego-
 tiators along with state and federal experts in hydrology,
 economics. biology, recreation, and all other experts per-
 tinent to these negotiations, are gathered now. The sub-
 .stantial progress they have all made in their work to-
 gether over the past years will be brushed aside and the
 decisions about our natural resource will be placed in
 the hands of courts. Obviously, a settlement handed down
 from a court will be revealed in light of the accuracy of
 twenty-twenty hindsight. That hindsight will tell us that
 we all would have been better off to have taken this op-
 portunity to negotiate with the resources gathered now,
 instead of receiving a court ultimatum that usurps all
 initiative.
 We now appear to be at the point where key positions
 need to be re-inspected if we are to avoid failure. En-
 closed with this letter are four points I encourage you to
 consider, as appropriate for each basin, before the De-
 cember 14 meeting of the ACF Commission Water Allo-
 cation Committee and the December 16 meeting of the
 ACT Commission. My hope is to suggest to you that there
 is substantial argument on some vital points and ways
 to avoid failure.
Thomas urged four points to the Governors to consider in arriving at
an interim agreement, and thus avoiding failure of the Compact.
 (1) Review actual irrigated agricultural acreage in Geor-
 gia. The Georgia County Guide 1999 reports total irri-
 gated acres in the counties around the lower Flint to have
 been 756,000 acres in 1998. The estimate in this report
 is made by the county agricultural extension agents most
 familiar with irrigation in place in each county.
 (2) Examine the multipliers being used to approxi-
 mate pumping rates in times of drought. Recently, the
 NRCS re-evaluated their Comprehensive Study work and
 concluded that a range of multipliers from 1.3 to 1.7,
 depending on drought severity, is supported by actual
 data (letter dated October 27, 1999). Using a greater mul-
 tiplier would result in water application rates above what
 crops can actually use.
 (3) Analyze reservoir operations that do not reduce
 flows to minimum levels when reservoirs are less than
 full. A river's flow regime is the principal organizer and
 definer of biological communities. Maintaining patterns
 of releases from reservoirs that mimic natural conditions
 is needed to sustain these communities. The Nature Con-
 servancy described to each of the States a possible res-
 ervoir operations alternative for the ACF that better ap-
 proximates natural flow regimes, while providing for sub-
 stantial M&I demands.
 (4) Consider an interim agreement. The need for an
 adaptive approach has been embraced to various degrees
 by each of the parties. An adaptive approach would pro-
 vide a mechanism to appropriately respond to the myriad
 of uncertainties we are faced with in water need projec-
 tions, groundwater/surface water relationships, climate
 change, ecological responses to alterations of natural flow
 regimes, and in many other areas related to water allo-
 cation. An interim formula could be agreed upon that
 would be a reasonable compromise between an agree-
 ment too short to be useful for water managers and plan-
 ners, and one too long to be responsive to changing con-
 ditions and knowledge. In both basins there is work in
 progress that will improve our understanding that could
 be incorporated into future formula modifications. For
 instance:
 The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers' implementa-
 tion process, involving detailed investigations and ad-
 ditional Environmental Assessments, will further
 identify significant environmental impacts and mea-
 sures to avoid, minimize, or mitigate the unavoid-
 able adverse impacts,
 I understand that Georgia is in the process of col-
 lecting needed additional data on the Flint River that
 would improve some of the documentation regard-
 ing agricultural demand information, but the stud-
 ies will not be completed for five years, and
 SA regional water management plan, being devel-
 oped by the stakeholders in southwest Georgia, may
 be completed within the next five years.
He closed his letter reminding the Governors that in his perception
that substantial progress that has been made in recent years, along
with the substantial progress still to come in the very near future, is
a compelling argument to keep the Compacts alive and address our
region's water concerns in this forum rather than the courts."

 h T A Brief Overview Of
 T Th The Tri-River Studies
 The interstate agreements among
 I Georgia, Alabama and Florida and the
 Assistant Secretary of the Army for
 Civil Works formally established a
 Sd partnership to address interstate wa-
 ter resource issues, and promote
 Ssystem-wide management of water
 issues. The partnership was stimu-
 lated by a lawsuit involving the three
 SA et states and the Army Corps of Engi-
  S^.,neers, which has been "suspended"
 S pending the outcome of the eight-year
 studies of the Apalachicola-
 Chattahoochee-Flint and Alabama-
 -.. 'Coosa-Tallapoosa River basins.
 JB I' The Tri-River Studies ware initially
 .- planned for $3-5 million dollars, but
 AJntiqles & Collectii Lies this 1992 estimate was revised up-
 wards to $13,500,000.
 S4ea.CI L4. After eight years of research and ad-
 I, NI l' I atcIcL ministrative work, a compact was es-
 A tablished, water needs among the
 A itW teS three states were generally assessed
 and the start on a formula for deter-
 mining allocation of water among the
 1 70 W ater Street states was made. However, the par-
 H is to rc Dow )1ltowVn A ties to the Compact were unable to
 agree on a final allocation formula, so
 A alac clico la, FL the time table was extended for one
 year. In late December 1999, the sec-
 (850) 653-3635 ond extension was agreed to, but this
 will last only until May 1st, 2000.
 Florida was chair of the Compact for
 1998: the new chair is now Georgia.
 A \AVcju\e \eIlb 0of The Chronicle first published a lead
 story on the entire project, outlining
 / es, 1/n\ut Ic ilI the implications for the local seafood
 industries, in April 1993.


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