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The Coosa River is a tributary of the Alabama River in the U.S. states of Alabama and Georgia.The river is about 280 miles (450 km) long. [3]The Coosa River begins at the confluence of the Oostanaula and Etowah rivers in Rome, Georgia, and ends just northeast of the Alabama state capital, Montgomery, where it joins the Tallapoosa River to form the Alabama River just south of Wetumpka.
Distribution map of the Redeye bass. Yellow represents native and purple represents where it has been introduced. The redeye bass , redeye , or Coosa bass ( Micropterus coosae ) is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family ( Centrarchidae ) native to the Coosa River system of Georgia , Alabama .
Waxahatchee Creek is a 21.7-mile-long (34.9 km) [1] tributary of the lower Coosa River near Shelby, Alabama. [2] It forms the southeastern border between Shelby County and Chilton County, where it is crossed by Alabama State Route 145. The lower reaches of Waxahatchee Creek are broad and popular with water skiers and recreational boaters.
The Coosa River is the primary inflow for the lake, in addition to numerous lakes and rivers. Prevailing flow is from the north to the south along a meandering course. The Coosa River arises in the Appalachian Mountains and its waters, and those of Logan Martin Lake, eventually discharge into Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico through the ...
Neely Henry Dam and Powerhouse, Coosa River near Anniston, Alabama, 1996. Neely Henry Lake is located on the Coosa River near Gadsden, Alabama.The lake was formed by the Neely Henry Dam (57 feet (17 m) high), built in 1966 by Alabama Power Company for hydroelectric power and recreation.
Lay Dam is a hydroelectric power dam on the Coosa River in Chilton County and Coosa County, near Clanton, Alabama. [2] The concrete run-of-the-river gravity dam was built in 1914 as the first major project of Alabama Power Company, and named for Captain William Patrick Lay, its first president. The dam's hydroelectric facility has a generating ...
On the Coosa River, 8 mi. SW of Rome 34°12′02″N 85°15′21″W / 34.200556°N 85.255833°W / 34.200556; -85.255833 ( Mayo's Bar Lock Rome
The very few successful spawning populations of freshwater striped bass include Lake Texoma, Lake Weiss (Coosa River), the Colorado River and its reservoirs downstream from and including Lake Powell, and the Arkansas River, as well as Lake Marion (South Carolina) that retained a landlocked breeding population when the dam was built; other ...