Bell Mountain is in the Appalachians and it immediately drains one of the particularly beautiful federal TVA impoundments of the Hiwassee River called Lake Chatuge.
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Clay County, North Carolina: Watershed Highlights 2015
The Hiwassee River flows innocently out of the north Georgia highlands and at Chatuge Dam near here, it has its first impoundment (of what will be many) by the Tennessee Valley Authority and so forms Lake Chatuge.
Towns County, Georgia: Watershed Highlights 2015
Three Murphy, N.C. men made a doomed attempt in 1963 to mine quartzite/silica from the very top of 3,420-foot Bell Mountain here north of this county seat.
Towns County, Ga. preserves the top of Bell Mountain
The steep 3,420-foot mountain immediately drains TVA’s stunningly scenic Lake Chatuge that spreads out below, a vulnerable and fragile wonder of the Blue Ridge.
Towns County, Georgia: Watershed Highlights 2014
Hiawassee is away out front in water quality technology
The Humans rule at Shewbird, but granite winning at Snowbird, Ocoee Gorge
Recent developments cannot be good news for Cement Roadstone Holdings of Dublin, Ireland, owner of Hayesville Quarry on Shewbird Mountain.
In the headwaters county, water quality is game plan
The Hiwassee is born here as a bright and sparkling trickle that confidently grows into a river and playfully crosses a valley.
Clay County adopts a 10-year comprehensive plan
Citizens meeting over an 18-month period sketch a blueprint for work by future county commissions, and nothing is written in granite.
All in Good Time: Towns County adopts building codes and mountain protection
Towns County, Ga. has the state’s highest peak and its county seat of Hiawassee is an amiable town hugging the 7,000-acre Lake Chatuge amid a bowl formed by mountains.
Towns County government goes to work to try to prevent further harm
The man in the driver’s seat of Towns County government goes to work to try to prevent further harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Lake Chatuge.