It's been four years since the state of Florida filed a lawsuit against the state of Georgia over use of water from Lake Lanier and the Chattahoochee River. This week, the United States Supreme Court will make a ruling in the case.
No specific date for the ruling has been announced, but the nation's high court has until June 30 to make its decision public.
According to the U.S. Supreme Court docket, documents were first filed with the court in Sept. 2013 with a Special Master Ralph Lancaster of Maine - stepping in in Nov. 2014 to help resolve the case.
Very basically, Florida has claimed for years that Georgia is using too much water from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River (ACF) Basin - which includes Lake Lanier - and in doing so, has damaged Florida's oyster industry. Georgia has denied the claims.
Lancaster gave Georgia a victory last year, ruling that Florida had not proved its case that a consumption cap on Georgia was needed.
According to a number of media sources, no matter what the U.S. Supreme Court decides this week, there are other lawsuits in the works over who has the right to use the water from the ACF Basin.
