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LISTEN: The newest report from Georgia environmental regulators sheds new light on the historic severity of the state’s ongoing drought. GPB’s Jillian Magtoto reports.
Underneath a Ga. Highway 204 bridge in Ellabell, Ga., the Ogeechee River is visibly shallow.
The waning water line has yielded paling dirt banks and marks of past water levels lining a concrete boat ramp. Here at Morgan’s Bridge, the water level average has been about 6 feet, or double what it looks like now.
“We’re probably 4 feet, 3 feet lower than what I would consider base flow, so we’re pretty low,” Ogeechee Riverkeeper Executive Director Damon Mullis said…