Now is a good time.
The misplaced marker for the border between Georgia and Tennessee has mysteriously gone missing, the AP reports. Good. Now is the time to put a new marker in the right place – in the middle of the Tennessee River which can help provide water for Georgia.
Back in 1826 a surveyor put the original stone marker south of the 35th parallel where it was supposed to be. This mistake has stood for 183 years despite Georgia’s attempts to get Tennessee to agree to correct the error as it should and give us our share of the river.
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State Rep. Judson Hill (R-Marietta) has said legislators should reopen the issue in the wake of the federal court ruling that metro Atlanta has very limited rights to water from Lake Lanier and the Chattahoochee, leaving us at the mercy of Alabama and Florida.
Hill is right, and if, as expected, Tennessee keeps just saying, “No,” Gov. Sonny Perdue should test the judicial waters in the U.S. Supreme Court. What have we got to lose?
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