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News Articles: Chattahoochee River

Jeff Seymour prepares a naval cannon for firing during the 2020 RiverBlast Festival at the National Civil War Naval Museum on July 4. Darrell Roaden Special to the Ledger-Enquirer

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Are sunken ships from Civil War still lying in the Chattahoochee? What a historian says

The Chattahoochee River has become a tourist attraction for kayaking and whitewater rafting, but some may not know the history that may lie just feet beneath their paddles.

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • Kelby Hutchison
Seven people are shown holding shovels in a groundbreaking ceremony in a wooded environment.

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  • News

Could Atlanta's next big trail be along the Chattahoochee?

Project supporters envision a 100-mile trail connecting river communities from near Buford to near Newnan.

April 27, 2023
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
Radko Jonas jumps into the water to retrieve a life vest that blew away as rain clouds approach at Lake Lanier on July 19, 2016, in Gainesville, Ga. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday, March 10, 2023, it is pausing a plan to rename the lake and the associated Buford Dam, both named after former Confederate soldiers, after local residents objected.

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  • News

Federal officials pause plan to rename Georgia's Lake Lanier

Federal officials are pausing a proposal to rename Georgia's Lake Lanier and Buford Dam, both names that come from onetime Confederate soldiers. The pause comes in response to objections by some local residents and officials.

March 13, 2023
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By:
  • Associated Press

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  • Environment

Chattahoochee River Act signed into law

President Joe Biden recently signed legislation aimed at protecting the Chattahoochee River.

December 29, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Jonathon Keats, an American conceptual artist, puts the finishing touches on a bowl made out of clay during a workshop on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, in Atlanta. Keats is in the process of devising a municipal clock to be located in Atlanta which would display time based on the flow rate of local rivers and waterways. Keats envisions the project as a way for people to have a closer connection with their natural surroundings.

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  • Arts & Life

Artist envisions clock based on how Georgia rivers flow

American conceptual artist Jonathon Keats is wading, quite literally, into time and space. The Chattahoochee River flows mostly ignored through Atlanta, but Keats hopes to encourage people to engage with nature.

February 04, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Workers at the Chattahoochee Brick Factory during the post-Civil War rebuilding of Atlanta

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  • History

Georgia Today: An effort to memorialize a historic Atlanta factory and mark its brutal Jim Crow past

A Northwest Atlanta brick factory that helped rebuild the city after the Civil War using the free labor of mostly Black prison convicts will be reborn as a park and memorial, supporters hope. 

 

December 17, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Florida has for years fought in court to curtail water use in Georgia to protect the health of Apalachicola Bay and the oyster industry there.   Now the US Supreme Court has dismissed a case in the decades-long fight between Georgia and Florida over water.

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  • Environment

U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Georgia In 'Water War' Case

The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a case in the decades-long fight between Georgia and Florida over water.  

April 01, 2021
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Chattahoochee River in Columbus

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  • Environment

Columbus Spends Big To Fight Against Chattahoochee Pollution Limits

A Middle Georgia public utility has spent years fighting a new state permit that would impose more limits on pollution flowing from the sewer system into a popular stretch of the Chattahoochee River known for its fishing and whitewater rafting.

December 17, 2020
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  • Jill Nolin
The segment of the Chattahoochee River that runs through Columbus is a popular spot for whitewater rafting and fishing. The Columbus Water Work is challenging new state requirements meant to protect water quality.

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  • Environment

State Regulators Enforce Pollution Rules Along 'Hooch' Near Columbus

A middle Georgia water system will have to comply with pollution limits aimed at protecting the water quality of a popular stretch of the Chattahoochee River known for whitewater rafting after a state panel rebuffed its objections, although a legal challenge is likely.

August 11, 2020
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
Jones Bridge Park

What's In A Name? | Atlanta's Ferries and Bridges

Many Atlanta roads are named after ferries and bridges, so at the request of listeners "40Watt" and Bill Witherspoon, we took a peek at the watery...

August 08, 2018
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By:
  • Emma Burns

On Second Thought For Wednesday, April 18, 2018

What makes Vidalia onions so special that they get their own festival — and declaration as Georgia's official state vegetable? We asked Delbert Bland of...

April 18, 2018
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  • Sean Powers ,
  • Adam Ragusea ,
  • and 5 more
The Chattahoochee River is one of the waterways at the center of a water crisis in the Southeast.

Tri-State Water Wars Overflow Into Tennessee

Georgia has been at war with Alabama and Florida over tri-state water use for decades . More recently, Tennessee entered the mix . The legal dispute...

April 18, 2018
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By:
  • Fenly Foxen and
  • Adam Ragusea
The Chattahoochee River (pictured) flows south where it eventually joins with the Flint River to form the Apalachicola River.

'Most Endangered' River System Has Sources In Georgia

The conservation group American Rivers has put the entire Apalachicola-Flint-Chattahoochee River basin on top of its list of Most Endangered Rivers for...

April 12, 2016
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By:
  • Sam Whitehead

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