The articles on this site were written by the late Tom Bennett, a then retired newsman and Hiwassee River Watershed Coalition member and volunteer. Tom lived with wife, Lorraine Bennett in the Martins Creek Community near Murphy, N.C. Tom was completely dedicated to improving and protecting the quality of rivers, lakes, streams and mountains in the Hiwassee River watershed.
Horace Kephart said, “Man is ennobled by the pioneer experience and by an engagement with the wilderness.” Camping in the woods was very, very big with him.
What critics term Scott Pruitt’s brazen acts of extravagance as 14th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency are what sparked multiple investigations, according to the river of Internet coverage.
The county commission chairmen signed a memorandum of agreement June 6, 1994. They agreed to “unite efforts to improve water quality by forming the Upper Hiawassee Watershed Water Quality Coalition.
The Clean Water Rule signed in Washington, D.C. May 27th by top officials for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Environmental Protection Agency “closes loopholes that historically allowed polluters to dump waste into the streams and wetlands that feed our drinking water supply.”
The list includes a rare mention of a site identified only as a precambrian rift basin in western N.C. The location was not specified.
Here in the far west along the Hiwassee River, a fourth cycle of five-year basin-wide water planning is complete, and this revealing document outlines the work so sorely needed.
Jeff Koontz isn’t saying how many tunnels and bridges he is likely to recommend in the next environmental impact study for the construction of four lanes of traffic through or around the Ocoee River gorge.
They are the river’s quiet champions. And recognizing one a year is the reason for the Holman Water Quality Stewardship Award.
The possible routes for Corridor K ‘look like lines of spaghetti,’ and as granite slides, so does incontrovertible fact despite TDOT workers’ best efforts.