1800 162,686 97.1% Parks Economic policy, College Football Hall of Fame, Burkina Faso (5). . 4.3 Environment Athens Greece 23 23 26 30 35 Atlanta was selected as the site for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games Following the announcement the city government undertook several major construction projects to improve Atlanta's parks sporting venues and transportation infrastructure While the games themselves were marred by numerous organizational inefficiencies as well as the Centennial Olympic Park bombing the spectacle was a watershed event in Atlanta's history that initiated a fundamental transformation of the city in the following decade, 50 168 The first successful English colony was Jamestown established May 14 1607 near Chesapeake Bay the business venture was financed and coordinated by the London Virginia Company a joint stock company looking for gold Its first years were extremely difficult with very high death rates from disease and starvation wars with local Indians and little gold the colony survived and flourished by turning to tobacco as a cash crop. The U.S Census Bureau lists fourteen metropolitan areas in Georgia the largest Atlanta is the ninth most populous metro area in the United States, County Manager Dick Anderson This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ; . Water is provided by various county and a few city systems Several of these systems actually serve parts of neighboring counties and cities as well the Cobb-Marietta Water Authority serves not only Cobb but also parts of neighboring Paulding and Cherokee counties for example During drought or other emergency cities and counties can enact outdoor water-use restrictions however some cross-jurisdiction water systems have also acted to put bans in place in late September 2007 the state Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources stepped-in with its first-ever ban covering most of the northern half of the state While surface water is by far the primary source of water for the region the drought had many systems (and a few wealthy homeowners) drilling new wells for ground water though the local water table is around 400 feet (120 m) deep on average, United Kingdom: BBC Brazil: Rede Globo Rede Manchete Rede Bandeirantes Rede Record SBT ESPN Brasil. Media Georgia Public Broadcasting (PBS) 9 Stations Powder Springs pop 13,940.
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