SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency plans to reassess its environmental permit for Hyundai's $7.6 billion electric vehicle plant in Georgia after a...
in Georgia after a conservation group complained that regulators failed to properly examine the sprawling factory's potential impacts on the area's water supply.
“The concentration of that pumping in one area is going to have some impacts locally, such as on domestic and agricultural wells,” said Ben Kirsch, the riverkeeper group's legal director. “The big question we've had throughout all this is what impact will it have on other resources resources — natural springs in the area, wetlands, tributaries and streams.”before the end of the year at its 2,900-acre plant in Bryan County west of Savannah.
“We never purposefully withheld anything,” said Trip Tollison, president and CEO of the Savannah Area Economic Development Authority, one of the local agencies that worked with state officials to bring Hyundai to Georgia. State regulators concluded that water withdrawals by the Hyundai plant would lower water levels in the aquifer up to 19 feet for private wells within 5 miles . They said most wells won't see any impacts because they reach deeper into the ground.
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