A major jet fuel spill at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport went unnoticed for days, sending thousands of gallons into the Flint River and raising concerns for communities downstream.

Fish sampling is essential to understanding the health of the river but is seldom done in this stretch of the Chattahoochee near Columbus, Ga.

Georgia has a lot of official state “things” – such as the brown thrasher as the state bird, the Cherokee Rose as the state flower and even grits as the state’s prepared food.