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” georgia house resolution 4 proposes a settlement of the boundary dispute , based on almost 200 - year - old survey errors , clarifying georgia ’s access to tennessee river water .
“ the tennessee valley authority has identified the tennessee river as a likely source of water for north georgia , ” said sen. david shafer , r - duluth , as he presented the resolution .
what georgia senators today passed a resolution calling for the correction of survey areas along the state ’s northern border in a 48 - 2 vote , a news release states .
georgia declared that it , not its neighbor to the north , controls part of the tennessee river at nickajack .
it directs the state ’s attorney general to sue to gain control of the entire area south of the 35th parallel if no agreement is reached with tennessee , the georgia senate press office release states .
the tennessee valley authority must approve interbasin water transfer that take water out of the tennessee river watershed .
georgia 's claim is that the boundary between the states was set at latitude 35 ° north when georgia first gave up the mississippi territory , like the pennamite wars that pitted pennsylvania against connecticut before the revolutionary war .
“ yet the state of tennessee has used mismarked boundary lines to block our access to this important waterway .