Flint River caves

[Kelly Jessop]

I can't find my source for it now but I picked this up from a google search. Either case, local rain won't necessarily determine local river levels. I do use the website you linked frequently for all the rivers I dive. It's a great source. I usually log the river level so I can go back and review later if needed. Looks like the Flint has dropped back down a foot and a half since the weekend.

The river guages on the Flint are a poor indicator sometimes because the level is dam controlled. I have been on the river and passed an area with a covered shoal,and came back a couple hours later to see that shoal exposed completely.

[Kelly Jessop]

I think the Flint starts in Atlanta as water seeping out of the ground, runs under a runway at Atl Hartsfield as a drainage ditch, joins up with a few creeks.

Recall an ecological issue that occurred on the Flint River when Atlanta-Hartsfield airport had a freeze,and all the deicing solution ended up in the Flint river,but this can't be much worse than a municipality that had an opps,and dumped several 100,000 gallons of untreated sewage into the Flint. Go to love your neighbors to the north :-(

[a64pilot]

Truth is, the rivers real nasty. I dove the flint once a few years back just to try to see why people were doing it, vis isn't very good, you have to be real close to see anything. After floating by very, very many beer bottles and cans, I came up on a straight 8 cyl crankshaft, followed very quickly by limbs from a large tree that I almost got caught up in, I called the dive a few yards later when I came up on a huge ball of barbed wire. Tree limbs I think I could handle, barbed wire, maybe not.

On edit, pretty darn sure the dump for Albany years back was on the banks of the Flint, so whenever we got a good rain and high river levels, Albany got their dump cleaned out

[Kelly Jessop]

On edit, pretty darn sure the dump for Albany years back was on the banks of the Flint, so whenever we got a good rain and high river levels, Albany got their dump cleaned out

Ironically,the clean water used to make Coors beer in Golden,Co,passes 100ft from a superfund site.

[Sludge]

Got to love your neighbors to the north

Yes, folks from Atlanta are veritable yankees.

[MORGAN]

Yes, folks from Atlanta are veritable yankees.

It's all in your frame of reference - we think of people from Boston as southerners!

[JamesK]

Yes, folks from Atlanta are veritable yankees.

People from Atlanta ARE Yankees! Folks from Georgia on the other hand are not.

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Anyone north of I-10 is a yankee.

[jmaddox]

Bunch of haters.

[Sludge]

Anyone north of I-10 is a yankee.

That's cold.