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The Chattahoochee River (/ ˌ tʃ æ t ə ˈ h uː tʃ i /) is a river in the Southeastern United States.It forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida and Georgia border.
State of Alabama v. State of Georgia, 64 U.S. (23 How.) 505 (1860), is a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the true border between the states of Alabama and Georgia was the average water mark on the western bank of the Chattahoochee River.
The boundary between Alabama and Georgia, south of West Point, Georgia, is the west bank of the Chattahoochee River at the mean water mark. This was established in an 1860 Supreme Court ruling, Alabama v.
Georgia and Alabama are proposing a settlement to a long-running dispute over water flows in the Chattahoochee River, although the deal won't address objections from groups in Florida over how ...
Alabama v. Georgia, 64 U.S. (23 How.) 505 (1860), unanimously held that the true border between the states of Alabama and Georgia was the average water mark on the western bank of the Chattahoochee River. In coming to its conclusion, the Court defined what constituted the bed and bank of a river.
Chattahoochee River in Norcross, Georgia, downstream from Lake Lanier and Buford Dam. The tri-state water dispute is a 21st-century water-use conflict among the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over flows in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin.
Tri-State Corner is the local name for the tripoint between the U.S. states of Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.The tripoint is located at the base of a mountain about 200 yards (180 m) south of Nickajack Lake, an impoundment of the Tennessee River.
Alabama: Florida: Georgia: Marker on Chattahoochee riverbank is actually a few feet above and west of true tripoint at high-water line. [2] Alabama: Georgia: Tennessee: Tri-State Corner. Marker on dry land at surface level and unmarked on lake in cavern directly below.