WATR Column
Watershed Activities Thoroughly ReviewedNovember 2006 – May 2019
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.
Here’s a news flash from the Cherokee County Planning Board
The Cherokee County Planning Board was working hard… This didn’t happen last week, for there’s no such board.
Dobson to receive inaugural Holman Water Quality Stewardship Award
Jim Dobson, retired superintendent of the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center has been named the recipient of the first annual Holman Water Quality Stewardship Award.
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.
Clay County, NC Ordinances
Shewbird Mountain is one of the landmark features of the Earth’s natural beauty here in Clay County, where there are many of them.
All in Good Time: Towns County adopts building codes and mountain protection
Towns County, Ga. has the state’s highest peak and its county seat of Hiawassee is an amiable town hugging the 7,000-acre Lake Chatuge amid a bowl formed by mountains.
North Carolina DENR approves expansion of a quarry on Shewbird Mountain
Harrison Construction Company has won the right to expand its crushed stone quarry on 2,902-foot Shewbird Mountain here in Clay County in the far reaches of western North Carolina.
Cherokee County, North Carolina, gets a FIRM grip on planning for future floods
The program now underway by FEMA to draw accurate U.S. floodplain maps places this state in the forefront of better planning for deadly and destructive flooding.
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.