New documentary spotlights women who helped to save Georgia’s Chattahoochee River

The journey to keep the Chattahoochee clean is as long as the river itself. Back in the early 1990s, bacteria and pollution flooded part of the Chattahoochee for roughly nearly 60 miles downstream.

Now, a new documentary is focusing on the several women who stepped up to improve the health of the river. “Saving the Chattahoochee” spotlights Sally Bethea, one of America’s first female riverkeepers, former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and other women’s decades-long effort to maintain the health of the river. The film will air on WABE-TV on July 2 at 8 p.m.

On Monday’s edition of “Closer Look with Rose Scott,” filmmaker Hal Jacobs and Chattahoochee riverkeeper Jason Ulseth talked about their documentary.