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Stevenson ruled the Florida Department of Environmental Protection ... They are part of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system, which starts in northern Georgia, crosses into Alabama ...

A southwest Georgia angler has set a new striped bass record for the Flint River, according to the state Department of Natural Resources. What we know: Travis Harrell landed a 52.2-pound Gulf ...

Alabama, Florida and Georgia jointly protect their water resources through the 1997 Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact, but aren’t required to confer or notify each other about ...

ATLANTA — Jason Cox, who grows peanuts and cotton in southwest Georgia, says farming would be economically impossible without water to irrigate his crops. “I'd be out of business,” said Cox ...