Legal Opinion
City of Alma v. United States
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided August 24, 1990No. CV589-51, CV582-98PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDENFIELD, Chief Judge.
The case before the Court represents the culmination of nearly two decades of struggle on the part of the officials of Alma, Georgia, the plaintiffs in this action, to build a recreational lake, aptly named Lake Alma, in Bacon County. Almost since its inception, the project has been opposed by environmental groups, certain citizens, and a few federal agencies, particularly the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “the Agency”), one of the defendants here. The plaintiffs have hurdled numerous bureaucratic obstacles and endured four separate lawsuits in their…
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