Weekend Watch & Reads

TVA is still cleaning up that coal spill. I created a video of some of the cleanup images.

Good

• Can you live with just 13 gallons of water of water a day. Check out Water for the Ages.
• Rain is a good thing. Lake Hartwell is now up Six Feet. Greenville News
• A new 30 acre plant in Spartanburg SC, can produce 100 million pounds of recycled PET plastic each year for reuse in bottles, which is equivalent to 2 billion 20-ounce plastic bottles. Some say this is the world's largest plastic bottle-to-bottle recycling plant. AJC
• Coastal Carolinas chosen for National Environmental Study. McClatchy Newspapers.
• NOAA has established no fish zones off the Southeast coast.

NOAA has established eight separate marine protected areas encompassing a total of 529 square nautical miles in south Atlantic federal waters to shield deep-water fish species and their habitats from fishing. All fishing for snappers, groupers, tilefishes, grunts, porgies, and sea basses is prohibited throughout the protected areas, which are located off the coast from North Carolina south to Florida. NOAA.

• Obama's National Agenda for Drinking Water. Michael at Waterwired
  

Impact

• The impacts to 4.8 miles of streams and more than 3,900 acres of wetlands represent the largest destruction of wetlands ever permitted in North Carolina. News & Observer
  
• Six New Reservoirs for Atlanta? AJC.
• Two New Nuclear Plants in Georgia draws protest. Some say they would use 80 million gallons of water per day out of the Savannah River Basin Morris News Service

Litigation

• South Carolina's attorney general wants the U.S. Supreme Court to block Duke Energy and others from intervening in the state's federal lawsuit against North Carolina. Associated Press.
  
• Georgia failed in its last-ditch effort to save a 2003 agreement that would have given metro Atlanta more water from Lake Lanier. AJC