Hearing Thursday on Lanier discharge

14 Apr 2005, credit to Stacy Shelton of the AJC:

The public will have a chance to comment Thursday night on state plans to allow Gwinnett County to discharge up to 40 million gallons a day of treated wastewater into Lake Lanier.

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division is holding a hearing on the proposed discharge permit at 7 p.m. in room 5 at the Gwinnett Center on Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth.

This would be the second permit issued by the EPD to Gwinnett to discharge into the lake. The Georgia Supreme Court rejected the first permit, noting that the county's state-of-the-art sewage treatment plant is capable of removing more pollutants from the wastewater than would have been required.