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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.
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 ...
The day after Christmas, the water level began rising from week to week. [24] Eventually after winter rains, on February 18, 2008, the water level of Lake Lanier rose to 1,052.80 ft (320.89 m), [24] higher than the December 1981 level of 1,052.7 ft (320.9 m), effectively ending the record-low phase of the drought crisis.
Discharge from the dam averaged 6,286 cubic feet per second (178.0 m 3 /s), over the 31-year period of observation from 1929 to 1960. [5] Discharge rates over the course of a given year vary considerably with seasonal changes in rainfall, within the 4,670-square-mile (12,100 km 2) drainage area of Chattahoochee River system supplying water to the dam. [5]
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The dam also has a 13.25 ft (4.04 m) diameter sluice which can be used to allow water to bypass the turbines. [1] Downriver from the dam is a trout breeding hatchery, which is one of the southernmost hatcheries for trout, due to the cool temperature of the water that the dam releases. [5]
West Point Lake is a man-made reservoir located mostly in west-central Georgia on the Chattahoochee River and maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The Chattahoochee river flows in from the north, before flowing through the West Point Dam, which impounds the lake, and continuing to Columbus, Georgia.