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Sub-Basin HUC Sub-Basin Name Sub-Basin Description [3] Sub-Basin Location [3] Sub-Basin Size (mi 2) [4] Sub-Basin Map 03130001 Upper Chattahoochee: The drainage and associated waters of the Chattahoochee River from the source of the river in Union County, running southwest through Lake Lanier to a line from Marietta through Smyrna, Atlanta, and Decatur, to Stone Mountain.
Visitors putting their rafts, canoes and kayaks in the Chattahoochee River. The source of the Chattahoochee River is located in Jacks Gap at the southeastern foot of Jacks Knob, in the very southeastern corner of Union County, [5] [6] in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) needed to open the flood gates and release as much as 300,000 cfs of water into the Arkansas River. That rate would cause record flooding along the river from Keystone to Muskogee. Many people living near the river in Tulsa voluntarily evacuated. Mandatory evacuations were ordered in Jenks and Bixby. [5]
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The 64-year-old tourist was the second person to drown on Hilton Head beaches this summer. He was visiting the island from Pennsylvania, according to the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office.
Seven people have drowned in Tuolumne County waterways since the beginning of May, the sheriff’s office said Monday. The incidents happened at God’s Bath, Rainbow Pools, New Melones Lake and ...
In just a few short hours, the river rose from roughly 5 ft (1.5 m) to a crest just over 41 ft (12 m), well over the 13 ft (4.0 m) flood-stage, near Wimberley. [19] [20] This broke the river's all-time peak of 32 ft (9.8 m) set in 1929. Tremendous flash flooding ensued as a result, with areas of Hays County being particularly hard hit. [20]
The Ramblin' Raft Race was an annual Memorial Day weekend raft race on the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta that lasted from 1969 to 1980. At its peak, more than 300,000 rafters partook in the race. After American Rafting Association stopped running the event and WQXI ran the event ontheir own in 1980, a drowning occurred.