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Creek Watershed Foundation, Inc. 2000 through 2021
CELEBRATING OUR 21st YEAR!!
I want to thank all of you for your help on Watershed Day. Some of the "wins" that we accomplished include:
Volunteers (20 car loads of folks) from the Tennessee Coal Association, OSM, UT, TU, ASCE, Anderson County, etc. removed about 3 dump truck loads of trash from Beech Grove Falls and other areas in the watershed. | |
An ecology class from the College of the Atlantic in Maine saw our web site and scheduled a trip to participate in Watershed Day. The 15 college students and their professor (Ken Cline ksc@ecology.coa.edu ) arrived early in Lake City and spent the day fishing, going on Bug Hunts, watching the fish shocking, collecting water/benthic samples from Coal Creek, picking up trash (including a toilet seat), mining information from the exhibitors, etc. | |
Allison Lockwood and her friends from the ASCE student chapter of UT spent the day in the Briceville Public Library and Friendship Center. The library/friendship center staff told me that they were "thrilled and blessed to have such fine assistance". | |
Volunteers from TDEC/TWRA/TVA/TU and people fishing found numerous species of fish present in Coal Creek including trout. | |
The Bug Hunts were a smash with the kids and adults. Most never dreamed that the creeks contain so much aquatic life. | |
The Boy Scouts from Lake City and the PTO from Briceville fed us and provided drinks. | |
Several students at both locations are now "hooked" on fly tying and fishing. | |
Margy White, Chief of Staff from OSM in Washington, got to see first hand the task we face to improve the quality of life in the Coal Creek watershed. We got to see one community that has built a low cinder block cribwall across a small creek for their water supply. Numerous 1-inch diameter black pipes lead from the cinder block cribwall to homes. The irony of the situation is that Coal Creek is located in the same county (Anderson County) as Oak Ridge, which is one of the leading technological centers in the world. She provided valuable information on potential funding for abandoned mined land reclamation work. | |
Rex Lynch (Anderson County executive) provided valuable insight into the potential economic benefits for residents of the watershed that will come from initiatives in the schools and reclamation of abandoned mined lands. | |
At the end of Watershed Day, we took trash that had been collected in
Fraterville back to the dumpster at Briceville Elementary School. Jonathon
and Richard, two of the most enthusiastic students who participated in
Watershed Day, invited us to come back next week for a repeat of Watershed
Day. They said "we had fun and want to do it again". They also
liked the prizes that were donated by the Southern Appalachia Railroad
Museum, Cracker Barrel, and Trout Unlimited. Click here for Progress Report No. 1 Click here for Progress Report No. 2 Click here for Progress Report No. 3 Click here for Progress Report No. 4 Click here for Progress Report No. 5 Click here for Progress Report No. 6 Click here for Progress Report No. 7 Click here for Progress Report No. 8 Click here for Progress Report No. 9 Click here for Progress Report No. 10 Click here for Progress Report No. 11 Click here for Progress Report No. 12 Click here for Progress Report No. 13 Click here for Progress Report No. 14 Click here for Progress Report No. 15 Click here for Progress Report No. 16 Click here for Progress Report No. 17 Click here for Progress Report No. 18 Click here for Progress Report No. 19 Click here for Progress Report No. 20 Click here for Progress Report No. 21 Click here for Progress Report No. 22
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[Home]
[SCHOLARSHIPS]
[RESTORING THE GREAT AMERICAN CHESNUTS]
[Master
Plan] [Map] [Photo
Gallery]
[Bank Stabilization Projects]
[Deadwood Removal Days] [Discovery Day 2000] [Scrape,
Paint
& Clean Day 2000]
[Historic Fraterville Mine Disaster Field Trip
2001] [Fraterville Mine Disaster 100th
Anniversary]
[Coal Creek War and Mining Disasters] [Mine
Reclamation Lessons]
[CMD] [Economic Benefits]
[Motor Discovery Trail] [Historic
Cemeteries]
[Partners] [Schools in Watershed]
[Mark the Trail Day]
[Awards]
[Coal Creek Health Days]
[Briceville School History Field
Trips] [Ghost Stories]
[Trout Stuff] [Join
Us] [Eastern
Coal Region Roundtable]
[Articles in the News] [Dream Contest]
Copyright© Coal
Creek Watershed Foundation, Inc. 2000 through 2021
CELEBRATING OUR 21st YEAR!!