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Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact (Code of Alabama: Title 33 Navigation and Watercourses; Chapter 18)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
Alabama
Document type
Legislation
Date
1975 (2019)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Water
Keyword
Sub-national agreement Surface water Data collection/reporting Drainage/land reclamation Basin/catchment/watershed Governance Institution Inland waters
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This chapter of the Code of Alabama adopts the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact. This compact among the States of Alabama and Georgia and the United States of America has been entered into for the purposes of promoting interstate comity, removing causes of present and future controversies, equitably apportioning the surface waters of the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa, engaging in water planning, and developing and sharing common data bases. This compact shall extend to all of the waters arising within the drainage basin of the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa in the States of Alabama and Georgia.

Full text
English
Website
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us