posted February 20, 2008
The Georgia Legislature on Wednesday passed a resolution to move forward with a claim that portions of Tennessee near Chattanooga should be part of Georgia.
The measure, designed to give parched Georgia access to Tennessee River water, passed unanimously in the state Senate. The vote was 136-26 in the House.
Georgia officials have claimed an 1818 survey is faulty and should have been run about a mile north.
That would give Georgia a sliver of land reaching the Tennessee River near Nickajack Cave in Marion County.
It would also throw the northern end of Lookout Mountain into Georgia and transfer territory from South Chattanooga and East Ridge.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Senate members broke into a rendition of "This Land is My Land" during debate on the resolution.
Sen. David Shafer (R-Duluth), the Senate sponsor, said, "The boundary of the state is the boundary of the state and can only be changed by acts of the Tennessee and Georgia legislatures and of the U.S. Congress. It cannot be changed by a mathematician with a faulty compass. Do the math, there's more Georgia water in the Tennessee River than there is in our own Chattahoochee," the newspaper reported.
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