WATR Column
Watershed Activities Thoroughly ReviewedNovember 2006 – May 2019
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.
Towns County government goes to work to try to prevent further harm
The man in the driver’s seat of Towns County government goes to work to try to prevent further harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Lake Chatuge.
It will likely be eight years before better maps of the mountains are made
Cherokee and Clay counties in the Hiwassee River watershed are NOT among 19 counties scheduled to be mapped by a 2014 target date.
Artificial slopes legislation is sidetracked, but NC budgets more for mountain mapping
Although it was aimed at regulating bad homebuilding, House Bill 1756, wasn’t even needed here in Cherokee County.
16 north Georgia counties unify to gain relief from mandatory stream buffers
The HRWC aids in Georgia’s shift to a call for increasingly tough Best Management Practices, as builders creep nearer the water’s edge.
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.”
Effluent from improperly installed septic systems could travel into the Hiwassee River
Mary L. Miller’s 19 months as chair of the Cherokee County Board of Health are over, and her departure was not a voluntary one.
Citizens from three states comment on Corridor K
“Corridor” is the only term now agreed upon by all to describe a talked-about future path from Tennessee to North Carolina.