West Point Lake is a man-made reservoir formed by the damming of the Chattahoochee River by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This reservoir extends for about 35 mi (56 km) along the Chattahoochee River near the Alabama-Georgia state boundary.
West Point Dam controls seasonal flooding and provides hydroelectric power. This reservoir also stores water during rainy periods, to be released later during dry periods, and hence helping to maintain the water level in the navigable inland waterway from Columbus, Georgia, southwards to the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachicola, Florida, along these two rivers: the Chattahoochee River and the Apalachicola River.
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