COAL CREEK 
DISCOVERY DAY 2000
August 22, 2000

Fly tying and engineering magic activities by the Clinch River Chapter of Trout Unlimited (CRC-TU) and the UT Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (UT/ASCE)

Engineering Magic

Anderson County Litter Control exhibit provided by a grant from TDOT

Concrete canoe demonstration by UT/ASCE

Channel 10 film crew getting their feet wet in Coal Creek

Electric shocking of fish by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) and Briceville students

Water quality sampling and testing demonstration by Coal Creek Watershed Foundation (CCWF) and CRC-TU volunteers

Glamour shot of the new generation of ecologists and conservationists from
Coal Creek

Bug hunts by Briceville students with Congressman Zach Wamp and Bob Fowler from the Knoxville News Sentinel

Enviroscape watershed model and fish recovered from Coal Creek demonstration by TVA and TDEC with Congressman Wamp and students.

Church ladies providing singing

Emcee Rev. Roy Daugherty addressing the "congregation"

Address by Congressman Wamp

Presentation of a U.S. flag by Congressman Wamp and a Tennessee State Flag by State Rep. William Baird to the Boy Scout Color Guard

Flag raising ceremony by Boy Scout Color Guard with assistance from Congressman Wamp and State Rep. Baird

Observers during the flag raising ceremony

County Executive Rex Lynch with Boy Scout Troop 120

Presentation of a coal miners quilt by the church ladies to Congressman Wamp (they can sew as good as they can sing)

Presentation of the book "Let Me Tell You About Coal Creek -- The History of Its Black Citizens" to Congressman Wamp by its author, Laura Wilson Locke Gary. See their web page

Closure by Principal Tom Braden