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Georgia prevails over Florida in ‘water wars’ lawsuit

A 2-year effort by the Lake Lanier Association, Hall and Gwinnett counties, private businesses and the Army Corps of Engineers to restore Lake Lanier's many islands, which had been eroding from waves caused by passing boats, finished in May - photo by Scott Rogers

06202020 LAKE 5 — A 2-year effort by the Lake Lanier Association, Hall and Gwinnett counties, private businesses and the Army Corps of Engineers to restore Lake Lanier's many islands, which had been eroding from waves caused by passing boats, finished in May - photo by Scott Rogers

The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday sided with Georgia in a lawsuit Florida filed in 2013 over the allocation of water that flows between the two states.