Pollution and Lake Lanier

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And the thousands of people who get their drinking water from the lake would notice a change in taste and odor." (Environmental problems looming for Lake Lanier)

The majority of the study was paid for by Gwinnet County in hopes that the state would allow the county to release more treated sewage into Lake Lanier. Although the experts believe that industrial pollution will eventually cause the demise of Lake Lanier they do concede that pollution from waste is less harmful to the lake. In 2000 the state made a decision concerning the release of more waste into the lake. An article in National Wildlife Magazine explains that the state,

"Concluded that the lake can cope with the onslaught, Georgia's Environmental Protection Division last year signaled a willingness to permit the rapidly growing counties bordering the lake to increase their wastewater discharges, contingent on enforcement of water- treatment standards. "That the state is finally setting water-quality ...

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