The Urban Chattahoochee

The Urban Chattahoochee

By REECE TURRENTINE Not long ago, I was walking upstream along the East Palisades river’s edge trail, looking for a better location to beach canoes. When I’m guiding a group down

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Georgia Watersheds

A River System is a network of connecting channels. Water from rain, snow, groundwater and other sources collects into the channels and flows to the ocean. A river system has three

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Fruitless Prophesy

Fruitless Prophesy

WALTER GRINDLE of Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia Recorded by JEAN BIEDER.  Great-uncle of mine, he liked pepper – any form of pepper. He 'as crazy about pepper. And his name

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Boating in Georgia: Locking Through

Editors note: When Sherri and I were researching and writing the Riverkeeper's Guide to the Chattahoochee and the Flint River Guidebook, we took numerous trips up and down both

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Chattahoochee Dams

Chattahoochee Dams

Sixteen dams harness the power of the Chattahoochee as it rolls towards Apalachicola Bay–nine of those in the Columbus area alone. If you are navigating down the river, you must

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