The Chattahoochee River basin near West Point Lake is elongated and is on average wide by long and contains an area of north of the West Point Dam. The Chattahoochee River flows in a southwest direction for to arrive at the West Point Dam after starting in the Blue Ridge Mountains in north Georgia. The northern portion of the river basin is in the Blue Ridge Region, but the middle region, where West Point is located, is in the Piedmont Region, north of the fall line. This produces rolling hills around the lake with the exception of the nearby Pine Mountain Range. The lake and other parts of the region contains soils with high iron-oxides and are clay-rich that make Georgia famous. Granite and soapstone are common minerals in area. The entire area of the Chattahoochee River basin is :4-1