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Hartland – Fish Passage Precedent for US Fish and Wildlife Service
“Everyone is happy with this project,” notes Scott Roth, biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Scott coordinates the National Fish Passage Program and National Fish Habitat Partnership...
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Visible grout nearly eliminated at Columbus WaveShaper
As the WaveShaper is installed in the Chattahoochee, MWDG Engineers Rick McLaughlin and Jack Goble point out an aspect of the Chattahoochee River design that, once completed, will be evident only in...
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Confluence Park Master Plan – Nearly Final
Denver has embarked on an ambitious plan for Confluence Park. The birthplace of the City will be honored in a way that steps beyond the current configuration with dramatic thought, augmented by...
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Columbus whitewater’s dam – getting to the bottom of things
As the WaveShaper foundation finalization and installation finishes, the dam demolition has continued so that in a few days, water will descend over the Georgia side of the Lower Chattahoochee and the...
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Columbus whitewater raises interest in Alabama real estate
There’s an awful lot of acceleration around the re-engineering of the Lower Chattahoochee in Columbus. The City’s Facebook page keeps us up with local news and announcements about the course....
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Happy Birthday, Columbus Whitewater WaveShaper!
Yesterday, we watched the first flow over the WaveShaper, located on the Georgia side of the Lower Chattahoochee River. It looked mighty fine, and was visited by some paddlers from late afternoon...
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Columbus, Georgia is Learning Whitewater
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...
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Chattahoochee Whitewater Course to Open Memorial Day Weekend
Here’s the announcement that the river park will officially ‘open’ in May, from the Ledger-Enquirer: After more than a decade of planning, construction, headaches and governmental red tape, you can now...
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MWDG Receives American Public Works Association-Colorado Award
The McLaughlin Whitewater Design Group was honored at the American Public Works Association Colorado Chapter (APWA-CO) Annual Awards ceremony in February. The Hartland Dam/Gunnison River improvements,...
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City Mills Dam on the Chattahoochee – Blasted
The City Mills dam on the Lower Chattahoochee that separates Columbus, Georgia from Phenix City, Alabama was blasted to remove the final major encumbrance to the river restoration. As noted in the...
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The Chattahoochee is open for business!
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...
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Choosing to Run ‘Cut Bait’ on the Chattahoochee
(source: C. Williams, Ledger-Enquirer) Cut Bait. As in, fish or cut bait. As in, make a decision. The signature rapid on the new Chattahoochee River Park whitewater course is forcing almost everyone...
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Family in an RV with 12 Kids Visit the Chattahoochee Wave for a Surf
The Kellogg Family is certainly unique. They were interviewed earlier this year on the Today Show for the lifestyle they have chosen. Can you beat the togetherness of mom, dad, 12 kids + dog in an RV?...
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2013 Freestyle World Championships on the Nantahala
Well over 200 competitors from around the world, including 22 athletes from the United States will be competing September 2-8, 2013 at the ‘Nantahala Wave,’ the product of MWDG design work under the...
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USA Today Ranks Lower Chattahoochee one of the top manmade attractions in the...
Crazy? We don’t think so, but we’ll take the applause for our work!! Best manmade whitewater—Chatahoochee River, Columbus, GA Imagine throttling down the frothy waters of the Amazon, Congo or...
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Video from Columbus and Jr. Men’s Freestyle World Champ!
From Uptown Columbus: ”Come raft with us on the Chattahoochee, the longest urban whitewater in the world.“ “Best (HQ) From Playboating to River Running to Whitewater Rafting the Chattahoochee...
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Hartland Dam Award: the video
Merrick & Company colleagues shared this video of the Hartland Project in Delta, Colorado featuring a great aerial image and an interview with Ben Nielsen, P.E. Nice job on the interview, Ben!
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2013 Freestyle World Championships Success
We were ther and witnessed undeniable success, all around…including competition performances on the course designed by MWDG: Nantahala Bryson City, N.C. (September 12, 2013)—After the closing...
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Holtwood Waves for Mid-Atlantic River Surfers
This article and video of the PPL Holtwood project as reported by the local press provides an up-close-and-personal sense of the size of the plant and the river. It help explain why working on a...
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Elijah Mack: MWDG on ‘Cutting Edge’
Most people think of ocean waves as the ideal medium for riding surfboards. In reality stationary waves are much better suited for riding a surfboard…well this could be argued depending on whom you...
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