Two hundred yards below the Appalachian Trail in Georgia, the waters of the Chattahoochee River begin a 500 mile journey south.  The river flows each day through Atlanta, past Western Georgia cities like Columbus and along the state boundary between Georgia and Alabama -- past more than a dozen dams and locks on the way to the Gulf of Mexico.  At the Florida-Georgia border the Chattahoochee meets up with Georgia's Flint River and  takes on a new name --The Apalachicola. Sixteen billion gallons of water flow down the Apalachicola into the Bay every day making it Florida's largest waterway and it's at the heart of a tri-state water war.

From: Apalachicola Doin' Time

Apalachicola Doin' Time

by

Dale Crider

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At the Mouth Of the River

Changing Character

Reporter's Notebook

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Apalachicola: Doin' Time

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