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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When a power company built a dam on the Georgia-South Carolina border nearly a century ago, the work covered a 4-mile stretch of the lower Chattooga River with so much water that the river's rocky channel vanished.
Dec. 1—When a power company built a dam on the Georgia-South Carolina border nearly a century ago, the work covered a four-mile stretch of the lower Chattooga River with so much water that the river's rocky channel vanished. The dam, however, isn't a major power source these days, and a conflict is brewing over whether to tear down the expansive structure that has blocked the