WATR Column
Watershed Activities Thoroughly ReviewedNovember 2006 – May 2019
Options that would swing well to the north and south are “gone” from Corridor K planning
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.
Holman Water Quality Stewardship Award banquet is set for March 4, 2011
They are the river’s quiet champions. And recognizing one a year is the reason for the Holman Water Quality Stewardship Award.
Clay County adopts a 10-year comprehensive plan
Citizens meeting over an 18-month period sketch a blueprint for work by future county commissions, and nothing is written in granite.
‘Hard times have given counties a chance to get caught up’
Lamar Paris, who is the sole commissioner of Union County, received the HRWC’s award for environmental protection
Possible routes for Corridor K ‘look like lines of spaghetti’
The possible routes for Corridor K ‘look like lines of spaghetti,’ and as granite slides, so does incontrovertible fact despite TDOT workers’ best efforts.
It takes teamwork to protect a trout stream
Shuler Creek, a hatchery supported trout stream above Lake Apalachia near the Tennessee line, was swollen.
Lamar Paris to Receive Holman Water Quality Stewardship Award
The HRWC’s annual honor recognizes outstanding contributions to its mission of facilitating water quality improvements in the upper Hiwassee River basin.
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.
USFS has a specialist on hand as it angles for an Upper Tellico solution
The U.S. Forest Service is refereeing a heavyweight bout between two groups. They are the nation’s off-highway vehicle enthusiasts and its brook-trout anglers.
Either way, a mountaintop vanishes from the Earth
In western North Carolina, mountaintop removal is to take out the crushed stone, and in Kentucky, it is to get the coal.