The Columbus community is familiarizing themselves with whitewater engineering and paddlesports! News outlets were out last week documenting the beginning of the tuning phase of the WaveShaper on the Chattahoochee, installed on the eastern/Georgia side of the river. Here’s an article in the local paper, featuring 2012 Freestyle World Cup Junior Champion Hunter Katich …
Enhancement of the river right, or Alabama side of the Lower Chattahoochee has exceeded even our expectations! The channel we had to work with was blasted into a hardly natural straight-sided canal which, when loaded once or twice daily with 5,000 – 12,000+ cfs created a gargantuan explosion before churning out into the open width …