fbpx
Wikipedia

Chattahoochee River

March 22, 2023

"Chattahoochee" redirects here. For other uses, see Chattahoochee (disambiguation).

The Chattahoochee River (/ˌtʃætəˈhuːtʃi/) forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida and Georgia border. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers and emptying from Florida into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. The Chattahoochee River is about 430 miles (690 km) long.[3] The Chattahoochee, Flint, and Apalachicola rivers together make up the Apalachicola–Chattahoochee–Flint River Basin (ACF River Basin).[3] The Chattahoochee makes up the largest part of the ACF's drainage basin.

Chattahoochee River
Chattahoochee River at Jones Bridge Park in Peachtree Corners, Georgia
Map of the Apalachicola River system with the Chattahoochee highlighted in dark blue.
Location
CountryUnited States
StatesGeorgia, Alabama, Florida
Physical characteristics
Sourcenear Jacks Knob
 • locationBlue Ridge Mountains, Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia
 • coordinates34°49′26″N 83°47′28″W / 34.82389°N 83.79111°W / 34.82389; -83.79111[1]
 • elevation3,550 ft (1,080 m)[2]
MouthApalachicola River
 • location
confluence with Flint River, near Jim Woodruff Dam
 • coordinates
30°42′32″N 84°51′50″W / 30.70889°N 84.86389°W / 30.70889; -84.86389Coordinates: 30°42′32″N 84°51′50″W / 30.70889°N 84.86389°W / 30.70889; -84.86389[1]
 • elevation
75 ft (23 m)[1]
Length430 mi (690 km)[3]
Basin size8,770 sq mi (22,700 km2)[3]
Discharge 
 • average10,090 cu ft/s (286 m3/s)[4]
 • minimum0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s)
 • maximum195,000 cu ft/s (5,500 m3/s)

Course

 
Visitors putting their rafts, canoes and kayaks in the Chattahoochee River

The source of the Chattahoochee River is located in Jacks Gap at the southeastern foot of Jacks Knob, in the very southeastern corner of Union County,[5][6] in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains. The headwaters of the river flow south from ridges that form the Tennessee Valley Divide. The Appalachian Trail crosses the river's uppermost headwaters. The Chattahoochee's source and upper course lie within Chattahoochee National Forest.

From its source in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Chattahoochee River flows southwesterly to Atlanta and through its suburbs. It eventually turns due-south to form the southern half of the Georgia/Alabama state line. Flowing through a series of reservoirs and artificial lakes, it flows by Columbus, the third-largest city in Georgia, and the Fort Benning Army base. At Columbus, it crosses the Fall Line of the eastern United States.

From Lake Oliver to Fort Benning, the Chattahoochee Riverwalk provides cycling, rollerblading, and walking along 15 miles (24 km) of the river's banks. Farther south, it merges with the Flint River and other tributaries at Lake Seminole near Bainbridge, to form the Apalachicola River that flows into the Florida Panhandle. The Chattahoochee River ends in the city of Chattahoochee, FL. From there, the same river is then named Apalachicola River, which ends (160 miles away) in the city of Apalachicola, FL (meaning both rivers end in the city named after them). Although the same river, this portion was given a different name by separated settlers in different regions during the colonial times.

Etymology

The name Chattahoochee is thought to come from a Muskogee word meaning "rocks-marked" (or "painted"), from chato ("rock") plus huchi ("marked").[1] This possibly refers to the many colorful granite outcroppings along the northeast-to-southwest segment of the river. Much of that segment of the river runs through the Brevard fault zone.

History

Geologic history

The current course of the Chattahoochee River has a geologic history that extends back in time at least 100 million years. A Late Cretaceous system of paleovalleys incised into the Coastal Plain unconformity in the vicinity of Columbus, Georgia is infilled with fluvial sands and gravels of the lower Tuscaloosa Formation. Younger rocks of the overlying Eutaw Formation record an estuarine environment in approximately the same location, suggesting a persistent paleodrainage system in the vicinity of the modern Chattahoochee for at least 10-20 million years during the Late Cretaceous.[7] North of the Fall Line, in the Piedmont of Georgia and Alabama, the course of the Chattahoochee River cuts across prominent, resistant rock layers, including the Hollis Quartzite of the Pine Mountain belt, and must have established its current course prior to uplift of those units. At the mouth of the Chattahoochee-Flint-Apalachicola River system, in the Apalachicola River delta, the geologic history of the delta can be traced at least as far back as the Miocene.

Early history

The vicinity of the Chattahoochee River was inhabited in prehistoric times by indigenous peoples since at least 1000 BC. The Kolomoki Mounds, now protected in the Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park near present-day Blakely in Early County in southwest Georgia, were built from 350 AD to 650 AD and constitute the largest mound complex in the state.[8][9]

Removal of Native Americans

Among the historical Indigenous nations, the Chattahoochee served as a dividing line between the Muscogee (Creek) (to the east) and the Cherokee territories (to the west) in the Southeast. The Chattahoochee River became the dividing point for the Creek Confederacy, which straddled the river and became known as the Upper Creek Red Sticks and the Lower Creek White Sticks.[10]

The United States removed the Native Americans to extinguish their claims and make way for European-American settlement through a series of treaties, land lotteries, and forced removals lasting from 1820 through 1832. The Muscogee were first removed from the southeastern side of the river, and then the Cherokee from the northwest.[11]

American Civil War

The Chattahoochee River was of considerable strategic importance during the Atlanta Campaign by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman of the American Civil War.

Between the tributaries of Proctor Creek and Nickajack Creek on the Cobb and Fulton county lines in metropolitan Atlanta, are nine remaining fortifications nicknamed "Shoupades" that were part of a defensive line occupied by the Confederate Army in early July 1864. Designed by Confederate Brigadier General Francis A. Shoup, the line became known as Johnston's River Line after Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

A month prior to the Battle of Atlanta, Shoup talked with Johnston on June 18, 1864, about building fortifications. Johnston agreed, and Shoup supervised the building of 36 small elevated earth and wooden triangular fortifications, arranged in a sawtooth pattern to maximize the crossfire of defenders. Sherman tried to avoid the Shoupade defenses by crossing the river to the northeast. The nine remaining Shoupades consist of the earthworks portion of the original earth and wooden structures; they are endangered by land development in the area.[12]

Two of the last battles of the war, West Point and Columbus took place at strategically important crossings of the Chattahoochee.

Recent history

Since the nineteenth century, early improvements and alterations to the river were for the purposes of navigation. The river was important for carrying trade and passengers and was a major transportation route.

In the twentieth century, the United States Congress passed legislation in 1944 and 1945 to improve navigation for commercial traffic on the river, as well as to establish hydroelectric power and recreational facilities on a series of lakes to be created by building dams and establishing reservoirs. Creating the manmade, 46,000-acre Walter F. George Lake required evacuating numerous communities, including the historically majority-Native American settlement of Oketeyeconne, Georgia.[13] The lakes were complete in 1963, covering over numerous historic and prehistoric sites of settlement.[14]

Beginning in the late twentieth century, the nonprofit organization called "Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper" has advocated for the preservation of the environment and ecology of the northern part of the river, especially the part traversing Metropolitan Atlanta.

In 2010, a campaign to create a whitewater river course was launched in the portion of the Chattahoochee River that runs through Columbus, Georgia. Between 2010 and 2013, construction took place on the river, the Eagle and Phenix and City Mills Dams were breached and a 2.5 mile Whitewater Course was formed in Uptown, Columbus. The project returned the river to its natural path across the Fall Line, as well as creating the longest urban whitewater course in the world.

Modifications

Several large manmade reservoirs, including Lanier, Walter F. George, West Point, and George W. Andrews, lakes are controlled by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The dams and reservoirs were developed following legislation by Congress of the mid-1940s for flood control, domestic and industrial water, hydroelectricity, recreation, and improved navigation for river barges. Most of the lakes were completed by 1963.[14] Numerous historic and prehistoric sites were covered over by the lakes during the flooding of the reservoirs, including Oketeyconne, Georgia.[13]

The Georgia Power Company also owns a small series of dams along the middle portion of the river (the Columbus area) between West Point Lake and Lake Walter F. George. Several smaller and older lakes and dams also provide these services on a much smaller and more localized scale, including Bull Sluice Lake, which is held by the Morgan Falls Dam. This dam was built by the Georgia Railway and Power Company in 1902 to provide electric power for the Atlanta trolley system, which has long since been replaced by other forms of transportation.

River borders

 
The Chattahoochee River in Autumn

At various points, the Chattahoochee serves as the boundary between several counties and cities, as well as forming the lower half of the boundary between Alabama and Georgia.

Within Georgia, it divides:

Atlanta

 
The Ramblin' Raft Race, an annual event in Atlanta, was cancelled in 1980 due to environmental concerns.

Atlanta is built upon the crest of a large ridge, rather than in the floodplain of the river. This has contributed the preservation of much of the natural scenic beauty of the section that runs through metropolitan Atlanta. North of the metropolis, the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area protects other portions of the riverbanks in a region that is spread across several disconnected areas.[15]

The river traverses much of Atlanta's hilly topography of the northern suburbs. Wealthy suburban communities in northern metro Atlanta that abut the river include: Vinings, Buckhead, Sandy Springs, East Cobb, Roswell, Dunwoody, Peachtree Corners, Duluth, Johns Creek, and Berkeley Lake.

Since three states have needs related to the river, there has been increasing controversy since the late twentieth century related to competing development among the regions and the implications for the river. The enormous growth of metropolitan Atlanta has increased its water withdrawals from the river. This has effects downstream. For example, the oysters in the Apalachicola Bay of Florida depend on the brackish water mixture of river and ocean water, and the alternating freshwater and saltwater flows that the river and the tides provide. The amount of flow in the Chattahoochee has also been decreased by interbasin water transfers, where water is withdrawn from the Chattahoochee, but discharged as treated sewage water into another river, such as the Oconee River, which flow to the Atlantic Seaboard via the Altamaha River.

Interest groups and the state of Florida have asked the U.S. Congress to intervene to reduce the priority given to put navigation of the lower Chattahoochee, south of Columbus, by river barge. This requirement causes large water withdrawals, which environmental supporters consider a waste of water needed to support habitats, especially during droughts. The navigation issue has aggravated the fight between Georgia, Florida, and Alabama over rights to the river water. A lawsuit has been filed in the case to reduce priorities given to navigation. The lawsuit is now in court, and may take years to resolve.[when?]

Flooding

The most recent major flooding of the Chattahoochee River took place in November 2009. This was caused by torrential rains from Tropical Storm Ida as it tore through the Georgia Piedmont. Downstream from Roswell, the Chattahoochee River remained in moderate flood stage. Streams affected by the September 2009 floods included the following:

The second most recent major flood along the river occurred during the 2009 Georgia floods, with 28.10 feet (8.56 m) of water recorded at Vinings at the northwestern Atlanta city limit. The flood was over 5 feet (1.5 m) higher than the previous flood recorded in September 2004, as a result of Hurricane Fred. Numerous tributaries also swelled far over and beyond their banks. These were the highest water levels seen since 1990, and the second-highest ever since the large Buford Dam was built upstream. The National Weather Service in Peachtree City estimated that this was a 500-year flood event.

Gauges

The main stream gauges are located:

Water-level forecasts are regularly issued only at Vinings and Atlanta. Forecasts are issued only during high water at Norcross, Whitesburg, West Point, and the Lake Walter F. George and Andrews Dams. All other locations have observations only.

Tributaries

 
The Upper Chattahoochee River Campground north of Helen, White County, Georgia
 
Chattahoochee River at River Park on Willeo Road, Fulton County, Georgia
 
The Chattahoochee River at the Devil's Shoals, East Palisades Park, Fulton County, Georgia

Tributary creeks, streams, and rivers, as well as lakes, along with the county they are in:

Note that the above list is incomplete, and that each item is not in the exact order in which it joins the Chattahoochee. (For confluences now inundated by lakes, it may be impossible to determine from current maps exactly where they were.)

Popular culture

The beauty of the Chattahoochee River is commemorated in the poem "The Song of the Chattahoochee" (1877),[30] by the noted Georgian poet Sidney Lanier. Lake Lanier on the Chattahoochee is named for him.

Country music artist Alan Jackson released his song "Chattahoochee" in 1993 as a single off his album A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love) (the name of the album being the last line of the aforementioned song's chorus). "Chattahoochee" received Country Music Association awards for Single of the Year and Song of the Year.[31]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Chattahoochee River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Calculated in Google Maps and Google Earth
  3. ^ a b c d . River Basin Center. Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Water resources data for the United States, Water Year 2009; gage 02343801, Chattahoochee River near Columbia, GA" (PDF). USGS. (PDF) from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  5. ^ "EPA MyWaters Mapper". Environmental Protection Agency. from the original on 2017-09-27. Retrieved 2015-12-03.
  6. ^ "Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)". USGS. Retrieved 2015-12-03.
  7. ^ Barineau, Clinton; Ortega-Ariza, Diana (2021). "An Upper Cretaceous paleodrainage system on the Coastal Plain unconformity of Alabama-Georgia". Field Excursions from the 2021 GSA Section Meetings. Geological Society of America. 61: 35. doi:10.1130/2021.0061(03) – via GeoScience World.
  8. ^ "Chattahoochee River". New Georgia Encyclopedia. from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  9. ^ "Kolomoki Mounds". New Georgia Encyclopedia. from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  10. ^ Hatch, Thom (2012). Osceola and the Great Seminole War. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 18–19.
  11. ^ "Land Lottery System". New Georgia Encyclopedia. from the original on 25 August 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  12. ^ . Georgia Battlefields Association. Archived from the original on September 21, 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  13. ^ a b "Oketeyeconne/Chattahoochee Theater" 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, Historical Marker Database, accessed 23 June 2012
  14. ^ a b "Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System History" April 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, US Army Corps of Engineers, accessed 23 June 2012
  15. ^ "Chattahoocheee River National Recreation Area 2009-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, National Park Service
  16. ^ HELG1[permanent dead link]
  17. ^ DCNG1[permanent dead link]
  18. ^ BUFG1[permanent dead link]
  19. ^ NCRG1
  20. ^ RWLG1[permanent dead link]
  21. ^ MGFG1[permanent dead link]
  22. ^ VING1[permanent dead link]
  23. ^ FBNG1[permanent dead link]
  24. ^ WHTG1[permanent dead link]
  25. ^ FRNG1[permanent dead link]
  26. ^ WTPG1[permanent dead link]
  27. ^ CMUG1
  28. ^ FOGG1[permanent dead link]
  29. ^ COLA1
  30. ^ "The Song of the Chattahoochee". About North Georgia. from the original on 19 December 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  31. ^ "Alan Jackson Biography". About.com. from the original on 2009-04-07. Retrieved 2007-08-07.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chattahoochee River.
  • . Archived from the original on 2013-03-23.
  • Fishing in Nancy Creek

March 22, 2023
chattahoochee, river, chattahoochee, redirects, here, other, uses, chattahoochee, disambiguation, forms, southern, half, alabama, georgia, border, well, portion, florida, georgia, border, tributary, apalachicola, river, relatively, short, river, formed, conflu. Chattahoochee redirects here For other uses see Chattahoochee disambiguation The Chattahoochee River ˌ tʃ ae t e ˈ h uː tʃ i forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border as well as a portion of the Florida and Georgia border It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers and emptying from Florida into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of Mexico The Chattahoochee River is about 430 miles 690 km long 3 The Chattahoochee Flint and Apalachicola rivers together make up the Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint River Basin ACF River Basin 3 The Chattahoochee makes up the largest part of the ACF s drainage basin Chattahoochee RiverChattahoochee River at Jones Bridge Park in Peachtree Corners GeorgiaMap of the Apalachicola River system with the Chattahoochee highlighted in dark blue LocationCountryUnited StatesStatesGeorgia Alabama FloridaPhysical characteristicsSourcenear Jacks Knob locationBlue Ridge Mountains Chattahoochee National Forest Georgia coordinates34 49 26 N 83 47 28 W 34 82389 N 83 79111 W 34 82389 83 79111 1 elevation3 550 ft 1 080 m 2 MouthApalachicola River locationconfluence with Flint River near Jim Woodruff Dam coordinates30 42 32 N 84 51 50 W 30 70889 N 84 86389 W 30 70889 84 86389 Coordinates 30 42 32 N 84 51 50 W 30 70889 N 84 86389 W 30 70889 84 86389 1 elevation75 ft 23 m 1 Length430 mi 690 km 3 Basin size8 770 sq mi 22 700 km2 3 Discharge average10 090 cu ft s 286 m3 s 4 minimum0 cu ft s 0 m3 s maximum195 000 cu ft s 5 500 m3 s Contents 1 Course 2 Etymology 3 History 3 1 Geologic history 3 2 Early history 3 3 Removal of Native Americans 3 4 American Civil War 3 5 Recent history 4 Modifications 5 River borders 6 Atlanta 7 Flooding 8 Gauges 9 Tributaries 10 Popular culture 11 See also 12 References 13 External linksCourse Edit Visitors putting their rafts canoes and kayaks in the Chattahoochee River The source of the Chattahoochee River is located in Jacks Gap at the southeastern foot of Jacks Knob in the very southeastern corner of Union County 5 6 in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains The headwaters of the river flow south from ridges that form the Tennessee Valley Divide The Appalachian Trail crosses the river s uppermost headwaters The Chattahoochee s source and upper course lie within Chattahoochee National Forest From its source in the Blue Ridge Mountains the Chattahoochee River flows southwesterly to Atlanta and through its suburbs It eventually turns due south to form the southern half of the Georgia Alabama state line Flowing through a series of reservoirs and artificial lakes it flows by Columbus the third largest city in Georgia and the Fort Benning Army base At Columbus it crosses the Fall Line of the eastern United States From Lake Oliver to Fort Benning the Chattahoochee Riverwalk provides cycling rollerblading and walking along 15 miles 24 km of the river s banks Farther south it merges with the Flint River and other tributaries at Lake Seminole near Bainbridge to form the Apalachicola River that flows into the Florida Panhandle The Chattahoochee River ends in the city of Chattahoochee FL From there the same river is then named Apalachicola River which ends 160 miles away in the city of Apalachicola FL meaning both rivers end in the city named after them Although the same river this portion was given a different name by separated settlers in different regions during the colonial times Etymology EditThe name Chattahoochee is thought to come from a Muskogee word meaning rocks marked or painted from chato rock plus huchi marked 1 This possibly refers to the many colorful granite outcroppings along the northeast to southwest segment of the river Much of that segment of the river runs through the Brevard fault zone History EditGeologic history Edit The current course of the Chattahoochee River has a geologic history that extends back in time at least 100 million years A Late Cretaceous system of paleovalleys incised into the Coastal Plain unconformity in the vicinity of Columbus Georgia is infilled with fluvial sands and gravels of the lower Tuscaloosa Formation Younger rocks of the overlying Eutaw Formation record an estuarine environment in approximately the same location suggesting a persistent paleodrainage system in the vicinity of the modern Chattahoochee for at least 10 20 million years during the Late Cretaceous 7 North of the Fall Line in the Piedmont of Georgia and Alabama the course of the Chattahoochee River cuts across prominent resistant rock layers including the Hollis Quartzite of the Pine Mountain belt and must have established its current course prior to uplift of those units At the mouth of the Chattahoochee Flint Apalachicola River system in the Apalachicola River delta the geologic history of the delta can be traced at least as far back as the Miocene Early history Edit The vicinity of the Chattahoochee River was inhabited in prehistoric times by indigenous peoples since at least 1000 BC The Kolomoki Mounds now protected in the Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park near present day Blakely in Early County in southwest Georgia were built from 350 AD to 650 AD and constitute the largest mound complex in the state 8 9 Removal of Native Americans Edit Among the historical Indigenous nations the Chattahoochee served as a dividing line between the Muscogee Creek to the east and the Cherokee territories to the west in the Southeast The Chattahoochee River became the dividing point for the Creek Confederacy which straddled the river and became known as the Upper Creek Red Sticks and the Lower Creek White Sticks 10 The United States removed the Native Americans to extinguish their claims and make way for European American settlement through a series of treaties land lotteries and forced removals lasting from 1820 through 1832 The Muscogee were first removed from the southeastern side of the river and then the Cherokee from the northwest 11 American Civil War Edit The Chattahoochee River was of considerable strategic importance during the Atlanta Campaign by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman of the American Civil War Between the tributaries of Proctor Creek and Nickajack Creek on the Cobb and Fulton county lines in metropolitan Atlanta are nine remaining fortifications nicknamed Shoupades that were part of a defensive line occupied by the Confederate Army in early July 1864 Designed by Confederate Brigadier General Francis A Shoup the line became known as Johnston s River Line after Confederate General Joseph E Johnston and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places A month prior to the Battle of Atlanta Shoup talked with Johnston on June 18 1864 about building fortifications Johnston agreed and Shoup supervised the building of 36 small elevated earth and wooden triangular fortifications arranged in a sawtooth pattern to maximize the crossfire of defenders Sherman tried to avoid the Shoupade defenses by crossing the river to the northeast The nine remaining Shoupades consist of the earthworks portion of the original earth and wooden structures they are endangered by land development in the area 12 Two of the last battles of the war West Point and Columbus took place at strategically important crossings of the Chattahoochee Recent history Edit Since the nineteenth century early improvements and alterations to the river were for the purposes of navigation The river was important for carrying trade and passengers and was a major transportation route In the twentieth century the United States Congress passed legislation in 1944 and 1945 to improve navigation for commercial traffic on the river as well as to establish hydroelectric power and recreational facilities on a series of lakes to be created by building dams and establishing reservoirs Creating the manmade 46 000 acre Walter F George Lake required evacuating numerous communities including the historically majority Native American settlement of Oketeyeconne Georgia 13 The lakes were complete in 1963 covering over numerous historic and prehistoric sites of settlement 14 Beginning in the late twentieth century the nonprofit organization called Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper has advocated for the preservation of the environment and ecology of the northern part of the river especially the part traversing Metropolitan Atlanta In 2010 a campaign to create a whitewater river course was launched in the portion of the Chattahoochee River that runs through Columbus Georgia Between 2010 and 2013 construction took place on the river the Eagle and Phenix and City Mills Dams were breached and a 2 5 mile Whitewater Course was formed in Uptown Columbus The project returned the river to its natural path across the Fall Line as well as creating the longest urban whitewater course in the world Modifications EditSeveral large manmade reservoirs including Lanier Walter F George West Point and George W Andrews lakes are controlled by the United States Army Corps of Engineers The dams and reservoirs were developed following legislation by Congress of the mid 1940s for flood control domestic and industrial water hydroelectricity recreation and improved navigation for river barges Most of the lakes were completed by 1963 14 Numerous historic and prehistoric sites were covered over by the lakes during the flooding of the reservoirs including Oketeyconne Georgia 13 The Georgia Power Company also owns a small series of dams along the middle portion of the river the Columbus area between West Point Lake and Lake Walter F George Several smaller and older lakes and dams also provide these services on a much smaller and more localized scale including Bull Sluice Lake which is held by the Morgan Falls Dam This dam was built by the Georgia Railway and Power Company in 1902 to provide electric power for the Atlanta trolley system which has long since been replaced by other forms of transportation River borders Edit The Chattahoochee River in Autumn At various points the Chattahoochee serves as the boundary between several counties and cities as well as forming the lower half of the boundary between Alabama and Georgia Within Georgia it divides Habersham County and White County Forsyth County and Hall County Forsyth County and Gwinnett County Fulton County and Gwinnett County Sandy Springs and Roswell Cobb County and Fulton County Douglas County and Fulton County Carroll County and Fulton County Carroll County and Coweta County Columbus Georgia and Phenix City Alabama Georgetown Georgia and Eufaula AlabamaAtlanta Edit The Ramblin Raft Race an annual event in Atlanta was cancelled in 1980 due to environmental concerns Atlanta is built upon the crest of a large ridge rather than in the floodplain of the river This has contributed the preservation of much of the natural scenic beauty of the section that runs through metropolitan Atlanta North of the metropolis the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area protects other portions of the riverbanks in a region that is spread across several disconnected areas 15 The river traverses much of Atlanta s hilly topography of the northern suburbs Wealthy suburban communities in northern metro Atlanta that abut the river include Vinings Buckhead Sandy Springs East Cobb Roswell Dunwoody Peachtree Corners Duluth Johns Creek and Berkeley Lake Since three states have needs related to the river there has been increasing controversy since the late twentieth century related to competing development among the regions and the implications for the river The enormous growth of metropolitan Atlanta has increased its water withdrawals from the river This has effects downstream For example the oysters in the Apalachicola Bay of Florida depend on the brackish water mixture of river and ocean water and the alternating freshwater and saltwater flows that the river and the tides provide The amount of flow in the Chattahoochee has also been decreased by interbasin water transfers where water is withdrawn from the Chattahoochee but discharged as treated sewage water into another river such as the Oconee River which flow to the Atlantic Seaboard via the Altamaha River Interest groups and the state of Florida have asked the U S Congress to intervene to reduce the priority given to put navigation of the lower Chattahoochee south of Columbus by river barge This requirement causes large water withdrawals which environmental supporters consider a waste of water needed to support habitats especially during droughts The navigation issue has aggravated the fight between Georgia Florida and Alabama over rights to the river water A lawsuit has been filed in the case to reduce priorities given to navigation The lawsuit is now in court and may take years to resolve when Flooding EditThe most recent major flooding of the Chattahoochee River took place in November 2009 This was caused by torrential rains from Tropical Storm Ida as it tore through the Georgia Piedmont Downstream from Roswell the Chattahoochee River remained in moderate flood stage Streams affected by the September 2009 floods included the following Chattahoochee River Vickery Creek Johns Creek Sweetwater Creek Nancy Creek Peachtree Creek Oconee River James CreekThe second most recent major flood along the river occurred during the 2009 Georgia floods with 28 10 feet 8 56 m of water recorded at Vinings at the northwestern Atlanta city limit The flood was over 5 feet 1 5 m higher than the previous flood recorded in September 2004 as a result of Hurricane Fred Numerous tributaries also swelled far over and beyond their banks These were the highest water levels seen since 1990 and the second highest ever since the large Buford Dam was built upstream The National Weather Service in Peachtree City estimated that this was a 500 year flood event Gauges EditThe main stream gauges are located at Helen near downtown 16 near Cornelia 6 miles or 10 km northwest of 17 near Buford 4 miles or 6 km northwest of immediately down from Buford Dam 18 near Norcross 5 miles or 8 km north of on Medlock Bridge Road 19 near Roswell 4 miles or 6 km southeast of just off old Riverside Road 20 below Morgan Falls Dam TW 21 at Vinings 3 miles or 5 km southwest of and Atlanta on Pace s Ferry Road bridge 22 near Campbellton 1 mile or 2 km northwest of and Fairburn on Georgia 92 bridge 23 at Whitesburg 2 miles or 3 km southeast of at Main Street Georgia 16 bridge 24 at Franklin at Main Street U S 27 bridge in downtown 25 at West Point 1 mile or 2 km northeast actually north of the center of town 26 at Columbus on 14th Street N U S 280 bridge to Phenix City Alabama 27 at Walter F George Dam USACE in Fort Gaines 28 at George W Andrews Lake amp dam USACE south of Columbia Alabama then in November 2009 it flooded Vinings again 29 Water level forecasts are regularly issued only at Vinings and Atlanta Forecasts are issued only during high water at Norcross Whitesburg West Point and the Lake Walter F George and Andrews Dams All other locations have observations only Tributaries Edit The Upper Chattahoochee River Campground north of Helen White County Georgia Chattahoochee River at River Park on Willeo Road Fulton County Georgia The Chattahoochee River at the Devil s Shoals East Palisades Park Fulton County Georgia Sweetwater Creek Tributary creeks streams and rivers as well as lakes along with the county they are in Dukes Creek White Smith Creek White Chickamauga Creek White Blue Creek White White Creek White Mossy Creek White Amys Creek Habersham Soque River Habersham Mud Creek Habersham and Hall Hagen Creek Hall Flat Creek White and Hall Helen gauge HDCG1 Big Creek Hall Lake Lanier and Buford Dam Dawson Forsyth Gwinnett Hall and Lumpkin Chestatee River Dawson Hall border Forsyth Hall border and Lumpkin Six Mile Creek Forsyth James Creek Forsyth Johns Creek Forsyth and north Fulton city of Johns Creek Georgia Bald Ridge Creek Forsyth Audry Mill Creek North Fulton Crooked Creek DeKalb Young Deer Creek Forsyth Four Mile Creek Forsyth Dick Creek Forsyth Level Creek Gwinnett Haw Creek Forsyth Two Mile Creek Forsyth Shoal Creek Gwinnett and Hall Suwanee Creek Gwinnett Brushy Creek Gwinnett Richland Creek Gwinnett Rogers Creek Gwinnett Norcross gauge NCRG1 Mavern Creek north Fulton Old Mill Creek north Fulton Vickery Creek Forsyth north Fulton Roswell gauge RWLG1 Willeo Creek Cobb Fulton border Bull Sluice Lake and Morgan Falls Dam Ball Mill Creek DeKalb and Fulton Beech Creek Fulton Summerbrook Creek Fulton Mountain Health Creek Fulton Arrowhead Creek Cobb Mulberry Creek Cobb Nancy Creek DeKalb and Fulton Nannyberry Creek Cobb Nickajack Creek Cobb Owl Creek Cobb Rottenwood Creek Cobb Sope Creek Cobb Trout Lily Creek Cobb Vinings gauge at Pace s Ferry VING1 Peachtree Creek Fulton Proctor Creek Fulton Cabin Creek Fulton Camp Creek Fulton Charlie s Trapping Creek Fulton Crooked Creek Fulton and Gwinnett Dog River Douglas Hewlett Creek Fulton Long Island Creek Fulton Marsh Creek Fulton Whitewater Creek Troup Sandy Creek Fulton Sweetwater Creek Cobb Douglas and Paulding Pea Creek south Fulton Pine Creek south Fulton Deep Creek south Fulton Mill Branch south Fulton Brock Branch south Fulton Browns Lake south Fulton Anneewakee Creek Douglas Basket Creek Douglas Bear Creek Douglas Bear Creek south Fulton Tuggle Creek south Fulton White Oak Creek south Fulton Turkey Creek south Fulton Gilberts Branch Douglas Hurricane Creek Carroll and Douglas Wolf Creek Carroll Acorn Creek Carroll Snake Creek Carroll Wahoo Creek Coweta Whitesburg gauge WHTG1 Mulberry Creek Harris and Talbot Pataula Creek Clay Quitman Randolph and Stewart Bull Creek Muscogee Upatoi Creek Chattahoochee Muscogee border and Marion Talbot border Moores Creek Langdale AL West Point gauge WTPG1 West Point Lake Chambers AL Heard GA and Troup GA Lake Harding Harris GA and Lee AL Goat Rock Lake Harris GA and Lee AL Lake Oliver Lee AL Russell AL and Muscogee GA Columbus gauge CMUG1 Walter F George Lake Barbour Henry Houston and Russell AL and Clay Quitman and Stewart GA Omussee Creek Houston AL Lake Seminole Jackson FL Decatur GA and Seminole GA Note that the above list is incomplete and that each item is not in the exact order in which it joins the Chattahoochee For confluences now inundated by lakes it may be impossible to determine from current maps exactly where they were Popular culture EditThe beauty of the Chattahoochee River is commemorated in the poem The Song of the Chattahoochee 1877 30 by the noted Georgian poet Sidney Lanier Lake Lanier on the Chattahoochee is named for him Country music artist Alan Jackson released his song Chattahoochee in 1993 as a single off his album A Lot About Livin And a Little bout Love the name of the album being the last line of the aforementioned song s chorus Chattahoochee received Country Music Association awards for Single of the Year and Song of the Year 31 See also EditList of Alabama rivers List of Florida rivers List of Georgia rivers Metropolitan River Protection ActReferences Edit a b c d Chattahoochee River Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey United States Department of the Interior Calculated in Google Maps and Google Earth a b c d Chattahoochee Flint River Basin River Basin Center Archived from the original on June 9 2010 Retrieved 4 August 2010 Water resources data for the United States Water Year 2009 gage 02343801 Chattahoochee River near Columbia GA PDF USGS Archived PDF from the original on 5 March 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2010 EPA MyWaters Mapper Environmental Protection Agency Archived from the original on 2017 09 27 Retrieved 2015 12 03 Geographic Names Information System GNIS USGS Retrieved 2015 12 03 Barineau Clinton Ortega Ariza Diana 2021 An Upper Cretaceous paleodrainage system on the Coastal Plain unconformity of Alabama Georgia Field Excursions from the 2021 GSA Section Meetings Geological Society of America 61 35 doi 10 1130 2021 0061 03 via GeoScience World Chattahoochee River New Georgia Encyclopedia Archived from the original on 26 July 2011 Retrieved 27 November 2010 Kolomoki Mounds New Georgia Encyclopedia Archived from the original on 5 June 2011 Retrieved 27 November 2010 Hatch Thom 2012 Osceola and the Great Seminole War New York St Martin s Press pp 18 19 Land Lottery System New Georgia Encyclopedia Archived from the original on 25 August 2010 Retrieved 27 November 2010 Endangered Sites Georgia Battlefields Association Archived from the original on September 21 2010 Retrieved 27 November 2010 a b Oketeyeconne Chattahoochee Theater Archived 2012 05 13 at the Wayback Machine Historical Marker Database accessed 23 June 2012 a b Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint River System History Archived April 30 2012 at the Wayback Machine US Army Corps of Engineers accessed 23 June 2012 Chattahoocheee River National Recreation Area Archived 2009 10 07 at the Wayback Machine National Park Service HELG1 permanent dead link DCNG1 permanent dead link BUFG1 permanent dead link NCRG1 RWLG1 permanent dead link MGFG1 permanent dead link VING1 permanent dead link FBNG1 permanent dead link WHTG1 permanent dead link FRNG1 permanent dead link WTPG1 permanent dead link CMUG1 FOGG1 permanent dead link COLA1 The Song of the Chattahoochee About North Georgia Archived from the original on 19 December 2010 Retrieved 27 November 2010 Alan Jackson Biography About com Archived from the original on 2009 04 07 Retrieved 2007 08 07 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chattahoochee River Chattahoochee River Archived from the original on 2013 03 23 Fishing in Nancy Creek Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chattahoochee River amp oldid 1145303677, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.