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Flint Riverquarium: new movies, riverkeepers, and discounts

– January 6, 2010Posted in: This Month

RiverQuarium swimming with specials, programs

Special to the Journal

Beginning this weekend and continuing for the rest of the month, visitors can show a church bulletin at the Flint RiverQuarium and receive a free movie admission with the purchase of a RiverQuarium ticket. Movies currently showing at the Flint RiverQuarium Imagination Theater are Wild Ocean and Dinosaurs:Giants of Patagonia.

Church groups also will receive a 10-percent discount on any Sleep With the Fishes overnight stay booked during the month of January and used by Dec. 31, 2010.

New Interactive Aquarium Guide debuts

New at the Flint RiverQuarium, the O-fish-al Guide is an eight-page interactive guide to learning more about the animals who call the Flint RiverQuarium their home.

“We have found that people sometimes have the tendency to move through the RiverQuarium at a quick pace, spending little time at each exhibit,” said Melissa Martin, the RiverQuarium’s education manager. “We created the O-fish-al Guide to enhance the visit for those wanted to take their time and enjoy a more in-depth, self-guided educational experience.”

Through a series of questions and clues, the visitor is guided through the exhibits of the RiverQuarium, learning about the fish and other animals along the way and receiving a sticker in the gift shop upon completion.  This guide is designed for ages 9 and up and may be used by families and groups, as well as individual visitors. A nominal fee of $1 is charged for the O-fish-al Guide.

Flint Riverkeeper director to speak

The Albany Audubon Society and the RiverQuarium will host a presentation, How to Listen to a River…How to Make a Difference in Your Community, by Gordon Rogers, new executive director of Flint Riverkeeper, on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. at the RiverQuarium Imagination Theater.

Rogers will share with his experiences in environmental management and activism based on his career in research and his new mission at Flint Riverkeeper. Refreshments served following the presentation.

There is no charge; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

New Movie Wild Ocean premieres at Flint Riverquarium

Now playing at the RiverQuarium Imagination Theater, Wild Ocean is an action-packed, inspirational large-screen documentary exploring the interplay between man and the endangered ocean ecosystem. The film highlights one of nature’s greatest migration spectacles, plunging viewers into an underwater feeding frenzy, an epic struggle for survival where whales, sharks, dolphins, seals, gannets and billions of fish collide with the most voracious sea predator, mankind.  Filmed off the Wild Coast of South Africa and set to the rhythm of the local people, Wild Ocean reveals the economic and cultural impact of the ocean while celebrating the communal efforts to protect invaluable marine resources.

Movie show times for Wild Ocean are:

Monday-Friday, 10 a.m., noon, 3 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m.

Also playing at the Flint RiverQuarium Imagination Theater is Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia. This film visits sites of major dinosaur fossil discoveries in Patagonia and travels back in time to see these amazing beasts come to life. Patagonia has given us the largest living animal to have ever walked the Earth: the plant-eating Argentinosaur, and its nemesis, the Giganotosaur, a bipedal carnivore, that could easily challenge the famous T-Rex.

Movie show times for Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia are:

Monday-Friday, 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. (4:30 pm Friday only); Saturday, 10 a.m., noon, 3 p.m.; Sunday,  2 p.m.

The Flint RiverQuarium is southwest Georgia’s premier aquarium, featuring more than 1,000 animals that call the Flint River watershed home.  The Flint RiverQuarium is located at 101 Pine Avenue in downtown Albany, Georgia. Regular operating hours are Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 Flint Float River Event

– October 1, 2009Posted in: Events

Sunday, October 25, 2009 from 1pm until 6:20 pm.

Learn more about the Flint River and support the Flint RiverQuarium by spending an afternoon on the river and at the RiverQuarium. Paddle southwest Georgia’s premier natural resource and enjoy music and barbecue afterwards at the Flint RiverQuarium.

Canoeing the Flint

Canoeing the Flint

Fee: Rental Canoe $60  /  Rental Kayak $45
Own multi-seat Canoe or Kayak  $45 /  Own Single Canoe or Kayak $30
Included river trip, admission to the Riverquarium, meal and music.

Choose a 5-mile or a 2-mile trip. There is a limited number of rental canoes, kayaks and personal flotation devices. A total of 60 spots are available for the Flint Float. Reservations are on a first-come, first-served basis. No alcoholic beverages are permitted.

If you prefer, join us just for barbecue and music at the Flint RiverQuarium from 3:30 until 6:30 pm. RiverQuarium members: Adult $8, Child $5; Non-members: Adult $12, Child $6.

For more information call the Flint Riverquarium at 229.639.2650.

Flint Float Facebook page.

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Flint Dams Proposed

– March 13, 2008Posted in: Headlines

To ease reliance on water on Lake Lanier and flood-control dependency on the Chattahoochee River , a Georgia congressman wants to reverse Jimmy Carter’s successful efforts to preserve the river’s flow through Southwest Georgia

It took Jimmy Carter more than a decade during stints as governor and president to defeat a dam project at Sprewell Bluff, where the Piedmont region gives way to the Coastal Plain.

Thus, the Flint River remains one of only 40 U.S. rivers that open flows at least 200 miles.

Now, to ease the reliance on water on Lake Lanier and flood-control dependency on the Chattahoochee River, U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Gainesville, has revived the notion of altering the Flint ’s natural course.

He wants more dams along the river.

“In 1986, no one could imagine the need we have for water supply,” Deal told the Gainesville Times newspaper in an article published this week. “The whole dynamic of the lake and river has changed. Population growth has been part of it, but the drought is another.”

The Flint has two relatively small dams: The Albany Dam forms Lake Chehaw , a 1,400-acre Georgia Power; and the Crisp County Dam backs up water for Lake Blackshear , the Crisp County Power Commission’s 8,500-acre impoundment.

The River and Harbor Act of 1945 authorized three Flint power-storage reservoirs above Albany . As governor, Jimmy Carter successfully defeated one the most controversial of the three — a proposed Sprewell Bluff dam. And later, as president, Carter initiated a process that ultimately resulted in the elimination of all three projects in 1986.

Noting that recent discharges from Lake Lanier resulted in the lake’s lowest-ever level, Deal says that Lake Lanier was designed to be augmented by the Flint River , but those plans were halted by Congress in 1986.

Deal is proposing to resume at least two of three Flint reservoir projects, including a 35,805-acre Sprewell Bluff dam; and a smaller project, a Lazer Creek dam, about eight miles downstream. The Sprewell Bluff project alone would cost an estimated $563 million.

“I think we’re at a point in time that we need to go back and look at these as alternative reservoirs,” Deal told the Gainesville Times. “They could certainly take some of the pressure off Lanier. I think it’s time we recognized that the drainage basin that supports Lanier is so small that it can’t afford to be the only holding reservoir … Nature has shown us that it is not realistic for Lanier to be the primary resource,” he said.

The Gainesville newspaper said that state Rep. Bob Hanner, R-Parrott, whose South Georgiadistrict includes a major section of the Flint , declined to comment on the proposal

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