WATR Column
Watershed Activities Thoroughly ReviewedNovember 2006 – May 2019
Union County, Georgia: Watershed Highlights 2015
Living together in a watershed unites people from all over who find they share a desire to protect its beauty and health.
Cherokee County, North Carolina: Watershed Highlights 2015
Along the Valley River’s banks, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians opened its Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River Casino and Hotel on Oct. 1, 2015.
Clay County, North Carolina: Watershed Highlights 2015
The Hiwassee River flows innocently out of the north Georgia highlands and at Chatuge Dam near here, it has its first impoundment (of what will be many) by the Tennessee Valley Authority and so forms Lake Chatuge.
Towns County, Georgia: Watershed Highlights 2015
Three Murphy, N.C. men made a doomed attempt in 1963 to mine quartzite/silica from the very top of 3,420-foot Bell Mountain here north of this county seat.
Towns County, Ga. preserves the top of Bell Mountain
The steep 3,420-foot mountain immediately drains TVA’s stunningly scenic Lake Chatuge that spreads out below, a vulnerable and fragile wonder of the Blue Ridge.
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of HRWC
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.
U.S. sets tough conditions in a draft special use authorization
The N.C. Geological Survey warns there’s a stream acidity hazard above Fires Creek, which are the Clean Water Act waters of highest quality here
Clean Water Rule closes loopholes and clarifies the scope of the Clean Water Act
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.”
Towns County, Georgia: Watershed Highlights 2014
Hiawassee is away out front in water quality technology
Union County, Georgia: Watershed Highlights 2014
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