Gwinnett shire is part of the expan...

Gwinnett shire is part of the expanding metropolitan Atlanta area. Its undivided source of drinking water is nearby Lake Lanier, formed from a dam on the Chattahoochee River, which also wait ons the area's tourism and recreation industries, and provides for downstream navigation and capacity of work production.

Geography exacerbates the water provide problems because the Eastern Subcontinental Divide bisects the shire meaning much of the water taken from Lake Lanier is used and discharged into other watershed basins, reducing the overall grow of the Chattahoochee.

Furthermore, in 1995 American Rivers, which monitors the health of the nation's rivers, named the Chattahoochee, into which Gwinnett discharges its treated wastewater, individual of the nation's most threatened rivers. And as if all that were not bad enough, Gwinnett is nearing the limits of its existing wastewater treatment capacity.

The Gwinnett shire Board of Commissioners, led from Chairman Wayne Hill, took an unusual