[citation needed] According to the latest data, the shortest river in the world is the Reprua, flowing in the Gagra District of the Republic of Abkhazia.

In 1988 future NFL football player Dallas Neil, then a student at the school, put in an appearance on The Tonight Show as part of this effort.

Not to be deterred, the people of Lincoln City submitted a new measurement of the D River to Guinness of about 120 feet (37 m) long, when marked at "extreme high tide".

[3] At that time, Lincoln City's Chamber of Commerce described the Roe as a "drainage ditch surveyed for a school project".

Nardlinger shot back that the D was merely an "ocean water backup", pointed out that there was an alternative fork to the Roe which was only 30 feet (9.1 m) long, and suggested that a new survey be conducted.