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The
Flint River is an approximately 150 mi (240 km) long river, in the
U.S. state of
Georgia. The river drains 8,460 sq mi (22,464 km²) of western Georgia, flowing south from the upper
Piedmont region south of
Atlanta to the
wetlands of the
coastal plain in the southwestern corner of the state. Along with the
Apalachicola and the
Chattahoochee, it forms part of the
ACF basin. In its upper course through the red hills of the Piedmont it's considered especially scenic, flowing unimpeded for over 200 mi (320 km).
Description
The Flint River rises in west central Georgia in southern
Fulton County on the southern outskirts of the Atlanta metropolitan area as
ground seepage. It then travels under the runways of the
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Flowing generally south through rural western Georgia, the river passes through
Sprewell Bluff State Park, approximately 10 mi (16 km) west of
Thomaston. Further south, it comes within 5 mi (8 km) of
Andersonville, site of the
Andersonville prison during the
American Civil War. In southwestern Georgia it moves through downtown
Albany, the largest city on the river. At
Bainbridge it joins
Lake Seminole, formed at its confluence with the Chattahoochee River above the
Jim Woodruff Dam on the
Florida state line. The Apalachicola River then flows south from the reservoir to the
Gulf of Mexico.
It is joined by the
Kinchafoonee Creek just north of Albany, and by
Ichawaynochaway Creek in southwestern
Mitchell County, approximately 15 mi (24 km) northeast of Bainbridge.
In addition to Lake Seminole, the Flint is impounded approximately 15 mi (24 km) upstream from Albany to form
Lake Blackshear reservoir. The river was historically navigable to Bainbridge before the construction of the Jim Woodruff Dam. The unimpeded nature of the river above Lake Blackshear is rare among U.S. rivers. It is one of only 40 rivers in the nation to flow over 200 mi (320 km) unimpeded. In the
1970s, a plan by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a dam at Spreewell Bluff in
Upson County, Georgia was defeated by
Governor Jimmy Carter, whose hometown of
Plains is located near the Flint River.
In
Luke Bryan's 2007 song "We Rode in Trucks," he mentions the Flint River: "Down where I was born was heaven on earth, the Flint River washes that red Georgia dirt."
Natural history
The river is considered to have three distinct sections as it flows southward through western Georgia. In its upper reaches in the red hills of the
Piedmont, it flows through a deeply incised channel etched into
crystalline rocks.the wheels on the bis gp rpimd South of its
fall line near
Culloden, the channel transforms to a broad, forested
swampy
flood plain. South of
Lake Blackshear, it transforms again, flowing through a channel in
limestone rock above the
Upper Floridan Aquifer below southwestern Georgia and northwestern Florida.
The river has been prone to
floods throughout its history. In
1994, during flooding from
Tropical Storm Alberto, the river crested at 43
feet or 13
meters in Albany, resulting the
emergency evacuation of over 23,000 residents, and creating one of the worst
natural disasters in the state's
history.
Interstate 75 was closed in Macon, and
Albany State University was also seriously flooded, as the river became a few miles or several kilometers wide in some places. The water lifted
caskets from
cemeteries and left them along with
drowned
cattle and other
livestock stuck in
trees and other places. Other significant floods occurred in 1841 and 1925.
In
January 2002, a
winter storm blew through Atlanta the day after
New Year's Day, and
deicing fluid
leaked into the river when the airport's
drainage system overflowed. Nobody became seriously ill from the
antifreeze, which made it into
drinking water for some, but the airport changed the system to avoid the problem in the future. This hasn't been tested yet however, since even
as of 2007, this is the last major
snow event the city has seen due to several warm or dry winters.
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