Nancy Town, Georgia, US
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Lake Russell to GA 105
| Usual Difficulty |
III-V(V+) (for normal flows) |
| Length |
2 Miles |
| Avg. Gradient |
100 fpm |
| Max Gradient |
250 fpm |
First big slide from bottom
First big slide from bottomPhoto by David Cohen taken 01/21/08 @ low
Gauge Information
| Name |
Range |
Difficulty |
Updated |
Level |
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BROAD RIVER ABOVE CARLTON, GA
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usgs-02191300 |
2000 - 20000 cfs
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III-V(V+) |
00h50m |
648
cfs
(rc= -0.7 ) |
Flow range for best boatability uncertain. Please help your fellow boaters with a comment or report. |
River Description
Nancy Town is a small but intermittently steep creek.
BE VERY CAREFUL. After a small dam on this run you will find a slide followed by an unrunnable
waterfall. An alternate access point exists below Lake Russell. This is a serious steep creek with
huge waterfalls, big slides, and some sick drops.
StreamTeam Status: Not Verified
Last Updated: 2011-04-17 00:36:58
User Comments
starting at the spillway from Lake Russell, but until you get to the second dam there is nothing
but completely flat creek. After the second dam, a little over a mile downstream from the Lake
Russell spillway, its gets really steep for about a quarter of a mile. The first rapid is a huge
slide probably 100ft long and dropping around 60ft. At the bottom there is a pool with and entire
tree in the landing zone. Just around the corner after that is the next drop, a vertical 35ft falls
onto rocks. Looks unrunnable unless more water changes things dramatically. Wouldn't be too hard to
portage from what I could tell. After that there is one more smaller drop, about 8ft or so that
looks clean and then things mellow out. The first big slide would be runnable with enough water and
if the tree at the bottom was removed. However, all of this is on private property and any boating
here would surely be considered tresspassing. If anyone knows if this has been run before, please
post.