Shuler Creek, a hatchery supported trout stream above Lake Apalachia near the Tennessee line, was swollen.
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Corridor K project that will carve a path through Blue Ridge Mountains clears some approval hurdles
Here are recent developments in the mostly federally-financed, state-guided engineering projects.
For now, there’s talk of an Ocoee River Bypass
Big trucks move to a parallel track, either north or south of the gorge, completing East Tennessee’s stretch of Corridor K by 2013.
Volkswagen’s announcement of a new Tennessee plant can’t speed work on Corridor K
Volkswagen Group of America’s announcement that it will construct an auto plant in east Tennessee has not sped the planning for Land of Sky Parkway.
Building a road by eye around the mountain
The blade of a bulldozer is an unforgiving thing, and once you advance it on the side of a mountain and start scraping off vegetation without any real plan, you are creating a scalded surface that will take years to grow back.
Holman Water Quality Stewardship Award Banquet beginning in 2009
One year from today, an annual banquet will commence in the Hiwassee River watershed that celebrates the quality of water still being measured in the scenic river.
TDOT prepares impact study for Corridor K, which could adversely affect the Hiwassee River
The Southeast Tennessee Development District is completing an economic development and transportation study for the Corridor K highway project
State clean-up to begin along Martins and Peachtree creeks
Green and white watershed restoration and protection signs will be coming to Peachtree and Martins creeks.
The Hiwassee River is ‘doing pretty good’
The Hiwassee is a 968-mile necklace of rivers, creeks and lakes in and among the mountains where North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee join in the Blue Ridge.
Corridor K construction could straddle Hiwassee River watershed, posing environmental threats
Denny Mobbs is a leading advocate of this Little Frog Wilderness site now that proposed routes through the nearby Ocoee River gorge have been exposed, he said, as “an environmental disaster.”