Alabama and Georgia end decades-long legal conflict

ATLANTA — No blood was shed, but it will go down as one of the longer conflicts in memory.

Last week, Alabama finally raised a white flag after nearly four decades of legal battles with Georgia in one front of what came to be known as the “Tri-State Water Wars,” which included Florida.

The Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta granted Alabama’s request to dismiss its appeal that challenged water use in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin…

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