Iconic SC river where 'Deliverance' was filmed in middle of controversy. Here's why

Dec. 1—When a power company built a dam on the Georgia-South Carolina border nearly a century ago, the work covered a four-mile stretch of the lower Chattooga River with so much water that the river's rocky channel vanished. The dam, however, isn't a major power source these days, and a conflict is brewing over whether to tear down the expansive structure that has blocked the

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