What goes up, must come down Happenings Events, groups, clubs, etc. The second of a two-part article on Chatham County's threatened water supply. In a controversial new water management plan, the Ga. Environmental Protection Division says the aquifer is too far gone to save, and the polluted Savannah River must be our main source of water in the future.
Pine trees thrive in coastal Georgia's soggy, sandy soil.
Our flat terrain makes it easy to grow and harvest them by the millions. And our warm-weather seaports make it easy to ship the stuff all over the world. In Savannah, paper means Union Camp. Since its arrival in 1936, the New Jersey-based company has been the premier manufacturing presence in our area, currently employing about 2,500 people. Its thirst for water is so great, that when it temporarily shut down operations this past December, water levels in the Floridan Aquifer rose five feet in one day.