1600 visitors attended an opening ceremony, and 400 people rafted the 2.5 mile reach that has been rediscovered and/or enhanced by the removal of the Eagle & Phenix and City Mills dams and MWDG’s engineering design effort. Businesses such as a sandwich shop and general store benefited from visitors in town to ride the river or …
On February 21-24, 2011 the MWDG team of Rick McLaughlin, Jack Goble and Ben Neilsen will visit the scale model of the river restoration project on the Lower Chattahoochee River that flows between Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama. The most recent trip in November, 2010 was a tremendous success, for the design team was …