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AP: Georgia senators want to ease rules for building below dams

February 26, 2020

February 24, 2020 ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators voted Monday to let people build homes that could be flooded by dams without raising safety standards for the upstream dam. The state Senate voted 47-6 to pass Senate Bill 319, sending it to the House for more debate. It would let structures be built in a dam’s inundation zone. The structures would have to be built to withstand a dam breach and be certified by an engineer approved by the state…

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GA Senate Panel Approves New Dam Regulations

February 11, 2020

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia could soon loosen safety standards for dams that sit above newly built homes, under a proposal unanimously passed by a state Senate committee. Senate Bill 319 would allow for homes and other inhabitable structures to be built in a dam’s inundation zone — the area that would be flooded if the dam fails — without causing the dam to be recategorized and required to meet higher safety standards. The structures would have to be built to…

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SRK: Dam safety stakes are just too high

February 5, 2020

The Savannah Riverkeeper writes in a recent Op-Ed in the Augusta Chronicle about the risk of dam failures to public safety in the Savannah River Basin in Georgia and Florida. See the full piece here: https://www.augustachronicle.com/news/20200129/dam-safety-stakes-are-just-too-high

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