Add It Up: Dept. of Water and Power
November 26, 2007 at 5:00 am by Thomas Wheatley in Add it upGallons of water consumed by average Cobb County household in
October: 6,510
Gallons of water used by Cobb resident Chris G. Carlos in October:
440,000
Swimming pools that much water could fill: 58
Gallons of water power plants Atkinson and McDonough consume daily from the Chattahoochee River: 862 million
Number of power plants located along the Chattahoochee River: 10
New jobs that proposed coal-fired power plant Longleaf could
bring to Early County, Georgia’s sixth poorest county: 100
Gallons of water Longleaf is expected to draw from the Chattahoochee each day, according to the AJC: 20 million
“Drops†of water Longleaf will “normally†draw from the Chattahoochee daily, according to plant project manager: 0
Sources: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The New Republic, Southern
Environmental Law Center, Greenlaw
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