Flint River

A river of western Georgia flowing about 530 km (330 mi) generally southward to join the Chattahoochee River and form the Apalachicola River at the Florida border.

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Flint River - a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

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Empire State of the South, Georgia, Peach State, GA - a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

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Lead began leaching from pipes after the city tapped the Flint River for drinking water without properly treating it to reduce corrosion.

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Flint's water problems began in 2014 when the city switched from buying treated drinking water from Detroit, which came from Lake Huron and the Detroit River, to their own source, the Flint River. City employees didn't have the resources or training to properly treat the water, since they had bought treated water from Detroit and transported it to customers, saidKaren Converse, a former Detroit water plant operator.

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New York: In a recent US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision, the justices sided with Florida in an ongoing dispute over water allocations between Florida and Georgia from the Chattahoochee and Flint River basin.

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In 2014, to save money, the state government switched the city's water source from Lake Huron to the corrosively polluted Flint River. The resulting water had a horrendously high lead level that can cause permanent cognitive impairment to young children.

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In the interim, while this system was being built, state officials decided to use water from the Flint River. Disaster ensued.

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Godwin), and it became contaminated in delivery lines by a new water source (the Flint River).

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Now, for one of the new bodies of work, she traveled to Flint, Michigan, famously the site of a riverine environmental catastrophe ongoing since 2014: That year, to save money, the state began to draw the city's water from the Flint River, an inadequately treated source that leached toxins, including lead from the city's old pipes, into the drinking supply.

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A standard USGS stage-discharge station is located at each of the three bridge sites (a bridge over the Flint River at Bainbridge, a bridge over the Chattahoochee River near Cornelia, and a bridge over the Ocmulgee River at Macon) chosen for modeling.

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