Via the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Website Yesterday afternoon, Judge Kristin Miller of the Office of State Administrative Hearings issued a final decision in Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s (UCR) appeal of a permit issued by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) to Forsyth County, Georgia to discharge six million gallons daily of treated wastewater into the Chattahoochee River from its Fowler/Shakerag Wastewater Reclamation Facility. “Over three million people use the Chattahoochee River each year, making it an important economic, recreational, and environmental resource for the state of Georgia and metropolitan Atlanta in particular.” – Judge Miller. In August 2010, Georgia EPD issued… Read more