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<br />. ~ <br />t <br /> <br />218 <br /> <br />BRlAN D. RICHTER ET AL. <br /> <br /> <br />ALABAMA <br /> <br />Gulf of Mexico <br /> <br />FIG. 7. The Apalachicota-Chatfahoochee....Plint (ACF) Rivet' basin. <br /> <br />priatiolts~ such as th.ose presently supporting the Long <br />Term Resource.Monitoring Program in the Uppel. Mis- <br />sissippi River basin can provide same degree offinan..: <br />cial assurance. Tyin.g flU]ding sources to reliable rev- <br />enueS such as water user fees or hydfopower revenues <br />generated at public facilities tnay'provide greater de- . <br />pen dab il ity . - <br />Both the Grand CanYQn Monitoring and Research <br />Center and the monitoring elell'lel1t for the Recovery <br />Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species <br />in the Upper Colorado River Basin are supported by <br />hydropower revenues generated at the main dams of <br />the Colorado River Storage Project. This annual fund.. <br />ing is, capped but is authorized to continue as long as <br />the monitori11g.is scienti~cally and ~olitically justi:fled. <br /> <br />APALACHfCOLA RrVER CASE STUDY . <br /> <br />Lying within the states of Georgla, Alabama, and <br />Florida, the Chattanoochee, Flint, and Apalachicola <br /> <br />EcotogicaL Applications <br />Vol. 13. No. ( <br /> <br />SOUTH <br />CAROLINA <br /> <br />GEORGIA <br /> <br />FLORIDA <br /> <br /> <br />Rivers and their tributaries drain an area of >5000.0 <br />km2, l.eaching from .the southern Blue Ridge Mountains <br />to the Gulf of Mexico (Fig. 7). The. Chattahooehee <br />. River begills north of Atlanta; passes through the city <br />and then for~s the border between Georgia and Ala- <br />bama. It meets the Flint River, which begins just-south <br />of Atlanta and :flows through southwe~t Georgia, at the <br />FJolida border. From' this confluence, the Apalachicola <br />River meanders 150 lcrn througjl the Flotida panhandle, <br />emptying into the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachic-ola Bay. <br />The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River <br />basin has long been noted. for its freshwater biodiver~ <br />.sitYj including aquatic communities of endemic and <br />imperiled species, anadromous and sport fish. The Ap- <br />alachicola River and surrounding lands in the heart of <br />the Florida panhandle was reporteq. in Stein et al. <br />(2000) as home of one of the nation's highest concen- <br />, trations of inlperi1e~ species. The State of Florida has <br />