Flint River (Georgia)
Map of the Apalachicola River system with the Flint River in Dark Blue
Jim Woodruff Dam
Template: Infobox River / Obsolete
The Flint River is an approximately 240 km long river in the state of Georgia in the southeastern United States of America. It has a catchment area of about 22,500 square kilometers in the west of Georgia. It flows south from the Atlanta's Piedmont region in the wetlands of the coastal region of the state. Together with the Apalachicola and the Chattahoochee River forms the Flint River, the catchment area of the so-called ACF river system.
Course
The Flint River rises in southern Fulton County on the outskirts of the metropolitan area of Atlanta and first runs underground beneath the landing and runways of Hartsfield -Jackson Atlanta International Airport on the surface of the Flint River and flowing south through rural Georgia, crossing the Sprewell Bluff State Park. Further downstream it passes through the historic jail from the Civil War in Anderson ( Andersonville National Historic Site ). In southwestern Georgia Flint River is dammed above Albany to Lake Blackshear, then it flows through downtown Albany, the largest city on the river. In Bainbridge. Other tributaries of the Flint River are the Kinchafoonee Creek and Ichawaynochaway Creek, which flows into Mitchell County in the Flint. It flows together with the Chattahoochee River into Lake Seminole, one formed by the " Jim Woodruff Dam " reservoir near the border with Florida. The Apalachicola leaves the lake in a southerly direction, and finally empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Until the construction of Jim Woodruff dam the Flint River was navigable to Bainbridge. Today the river is a rarity among American rivers due to his not altered by human progress above the Lake Blackshear. The Flint River is one of only 40 rivers in the country, which runs over 300 kilometers unspoilt and ungestaut. In the 1970s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planned to build another dam near Bluff in Upson County Well Spree. The then governor of the state Jimmy Carter prevented this project. His hometown of Plains is close to the natural history of the Flint River.
Nature and Environment
The river is divided into three main sections, the upper part of the river in the Red Hills of Piedmont, it flows through a deep adult channel in crystalline rock. South of the fall line near Culloden, the Flint River widens and becomes a tree of floodplain forests and swamps. Below the Lake Blackshear, the river changed once more, and flows through a narrow bed of limestone above the groundwater layer, which stretches from Florida to southern Georgia.
In the history of Flint Rivers were frequent flooding. 1994 during caused by Tropical Storm Alberto flooding, it came at the Flint River to the far worst natural disaster of the state. 23,000 people from Albany had to be evacuated because of the flood, Interstate 75 was completely blocked and the Albany State University was under water. The water pushed partially coffins out of the ground and left behind this decline in the flood along with cows and cattle drowned in the trees along the river course. Other major floods took place in 1841 and 1925.
In January 2002, it came during a winter storm to a leak in the airport. It came deicers in the river. While no one was harmed by the means which passed over the river and into the drinking water, but the airport undertook some efforts to address the issue in the future to avoid.