Reputed as much, if not more, for their political and legal maneuvering than their interests in truly balancing their clearly stated mission to remove the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam (reference Savannah Riverkeeper website: “With our Rock the Dam campaign, SRK advocates for the replacement of the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam with a rock weir.”), can a court truly determine that they should be allowed to join the plaintiff’s lawsuit that opposes its removal.
Given the rain events of the past few months, it should be clear to anyone with any remote sense of logic that, if a weir structure were in place today, that the river at downtown Augusta and North Augusta, would be getting shallower via the accretion of silt buildup behind the weir by the minute. They simply cannot be allowed to interfere with the goals of the plaintiffs to avoid this potential catastrophe for our cities. In today’s world, who knows?