Toccoa Rocks

Mr. Csuros

First off the Chamber of Commerce is not circulating any request for affidavits and is only involved in this matter to supply information requested by the attorney Lynn Doss who is working for Ron Coleman.  Most people are unfairly critizing the owners of this property and illegally trying to take away their rights to enjoy and use their property as they please.  If everyone would research the laws concerning this matter first a lot of this discussion would be mute.  The owners have had this property for many years and through their former generosity they had not objected to the public using it but because of abuse from the same taking advantage of their generosity they decided to put an end to use without permission.  This sparked an assult on their rights by Mr. Coleman who is determined to force the owners to allow his tubing company to use their property for his benefit.

In the Offical Code of Georgia Annotated (O.G.C.A.) Title 44, chapter 8, section 1 it states "Running water belongs to the owner of the land on which it runs"
O.G.C.A. 44-8-2 states "The beds of nonnavigable streams belong to the owner of the adjacent land. If the stream is a dividing line between two parcels of land, each owner's boundry shall extend to the thread or the center of the main current of the water."
O.C.G.A. 44-8-3 states "The owner of a nonnavigable stream is entitled to the same exclusive possesion of the stream as he has of any other part of his land. The legislature has no power to compel or interfere with the owner's lawful use of the stream, for the benefit of those above or below him on the stream, except to restrain nuisances."
O.G.C.A. 44-8-5 (a) states "As used in this chapter, the term "navigable stream" means a stream which is capable of transporting boats loaded with freight in the regular course of trade either for the whole or a part of the year. The mere rafting of timber or the transporting of wood in small boats shall not make a stream navigable." Since the Toccoa is not classified as a navigable river then perhaps this will settle this argument about whether this family has the right to ask any and all to stay off this property.

Geza,

Forgive me but I thought the two of you were not going to take sides. Your recent post have proven differently. I did not spend a lot of money at the Lily pad but I did enjoy the two of you. My loss.

Take care and have a nice life

Sydney

By the way Geza would you please remove the picture on our property from this site. We are not giving anyone permission to use, advertise or publish pictures of our property.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Sydney 

Geza,

Please tell me how I am making YOU take sides? By recommending the lily pad to every nice person I meet. This may be hard to believe but there are a lot more people who like me than dislike me and who support what I am doing defending PROPERTY RIGHTS and wonder of wonders in a way I am defending your right to own YOUR PROPERTY and enjoy it in peace. I would NEVER recommend people to band together to take YOUR property. What if someone wanted your place to turn it into a childs fun place while some one other than you would determine who would use it. All because they would make more money for themselves. We don't want any ones money and I can't see how our defending our property  rights affects you. So I won't be recommending your place any more so you won't have to worry about being 2 faced, nice to my face but talking against me behind my back. 

Because we are letting our property go back to it's natural state that means it's trashy? For the last 5 summers I have kept all the growth cut down so people could take pictures but as it turns out it became an open invitation for people to stop and play. With all my signs taken down most of the folks do not know it is private property. Trashy no natural yes. We can see the river just fine from our porch so we were keeping it cleared for other people but no more. This will also be my last comment about this subject or any other.

Sydney