In response to a high volume of stakeholder feedback, as well as input from adjacent landowners in a recent meeting, officials from the Corps’ South Atlantic Division (SAD) have announced suspension of the new policy change prohibiting minor water withdrawals at lakes across the division.
The suspension serves to allow further review of the policy and its implications for adjacent shoreline residents.
Districts have been directed to suspend the implementation of the policy effective immediately until the review is complete and further guidance is issued.
The new rule prohibiting use of reservoir water for irrigation was part of an update (announced Dec. 28 here) on shoreline use rules that took effect Jan. 1 for reservoirs within the Corps’ South Atlantic Region.
The policy suspension only applies to the part of the new rule forbidding use of reservoir water for shoreline irrigation.
As always we welcome questions, and will do our best to answer them during this review. As new details about the results of the review are available, we will share them in future posts.
~ Russell Wicke, Chief of Corporate Communications
