WHAT A PARTY!! Our start to reducing flooding by removing deadwood and debris from around bridges was a huge success. We completed work at 13 bridges. Volunteers (all 137 of them) from the Clinch River Chapter of Trout Unlimited, American Society of Civil Engineers, Boy Scouts of America, Anderson County, Briceville Volunteer Fire Department, UT Student Chapter of ASCE, TVA, and local residents made a difference at places like: (Click on photos to see larger images)
For results of our hard work and how it helped with flooding, see 2002 news articles at:It's a wash -- The Courier News -- March 20, 2002 Fighting the area floods -- Editorial -- The Knoxville News Sentinel -- March 20, 2002 Deluge proves worth of work on
flood-prone Coal Creek |
Slatestone Creek Railroad Bridge,
Coal Creek Railroad Bridge at Briceville,
Drummond Bridge near Fraterville (We must have scared off the ghost of Dick Drummond because it was not sighted),
and lower Beech Grove Fork Railroad Bridge.
We winched it out,
used brute force,
"bucket brigades",
buddy systems,
tons of chipped mulch.
TN State Representative William Baird (R) and Mark Messenbaugh from Gore 2000 (D) proved that Republicans and Democrats can work together.
We saw conditions before Deadwood Removal Day, and
conditions after Deadwood Removal Day.
Afterwards, we ate,
ate some more, and listened to gospel singing.
David Diamond and Mark Messenbaugh from Gore 2000 were taken on a tour of many of the stops on our Coal Creek Motor Discovery Trail. They learned about some of our other initiatives such as:
Getting
the Briceville People's Clinic reopened to improve dental and health care,
Improving drinking water supply and, |
eliminating trash dumps.
Gore 2000 staff learned about our:
ecology, conservation, and computer training in watershed schools,
abatement efforts at coal mine drainage sites abandoned prior to the 1977 SMCRA laws,
and environmental problems associated with runoff washing iron precipitate from abandoned deep mine sites into streams. We discussed the problems with congressional appropriations from the reclamation fund (built from fees paid by active mining companies) that would enable abatement of these environmental problems.
They also learned why we are not concerned with active mining as evidenced by local fishermen at a mine site abandoned after 1977 in accordance with SMCRA environmental protection standards ..... just another day in Coal Creek.
A.J.
Abner, Corey Adkins, Danny Allen, Steve Bailey, Zenith Baird, William Bates, William Bolinger, Tammy Bolinger, Derek Bostic, Brian Bostic, Lynn Bostic, Dale Bowlin, Ralph Braden, Brenda Brown, Wilfred S. Brown, Margie Buffington, Charles (Buzz) Bullock, Jerry Burris, Kathy Byrge, Everett Byrge, Wesley Byrge, Kendra Byrge, Gail Byrge, David Byrge, Pamela Byrge, Russell Carden, Larry Cecil, Roger Culbertson, Susannah Daugherty, Ovie Daugherty, Roy Daugherty, Della Davis, Thomas Davis, Lucas Davis, Charles Diamond, David Disney, Kathy Disney, Charlie Eichelman, Alan Forrest, Freddie Fuchs, Cherie Fuchs, Rod Garcia, Anne Goley, Gary Gremillion, Jacob Halsey, Mitch Hatmaker, Rubye Hayes, James Hayes, Winfrey Hill, Sara Holbrook, Michael Hooks, Bonnie Hooks, Harry Hubbs, Debbie Hunter, Walter Jacks, Sue Jennings, Roger Jones, Fred Jordan, Ralph Justice, Gwen Justice, Drew Lawson, Lisa Leinart, Joe Leinart, Jeremiah Leinart, Carol Leinart, James Leinart, Joshua Leinart, Mary Etta Leinhart, Dennis |
Lickliter, David
Lickliter, Mike Lickliter, Sheila Long, Gary Lowe, Curtis Martin, Angela Mason, Thomas McCoy, J. P. McCoy, Andy McCoy, Teresa McCoy, Aaron McCoy, Blake McCoy, Shauna McCoy, Bobby McGhee Joan Leinart McGinley, Suzanne Merrell, Leonard Messenbaugh, Mark Allan Mink Miles, Doris Miles,Shane Miller, Johnny Moore, Carol Moss, William Nighbert, Jean Nofal, Mohamed Overbay, Debbie Phillips, Michael Phillips, Rosemary Phillips, Matthew Phillips, Penny Phillips, Brenda Poore, Robert Poore, Larry Poore, Betty Pressley, Wally Prosise, Gary Raymond, Ron Rhea, Helen Rhea, John Rhea, Mary Rhea, Justin Russell, Mark Russell, Billie Seiber, Gail Seiber, Teresa Seiber, Archie Seider, Shane Selvidge, Kreis Sexton, Bonnell Shipley, Donnie Smallwood, Charles Smith, Charles Taylor, Dot Thacker, Barry Thurman, Kathleen Thurman, John Tinker, Brenda Vowell, Harry Vowell, Barbara Vowell, Harry Vowell, Eva Watson, Tom Weaver, Lyndon Weaver, Alice Whitt, Scotty Wilson, Ann Yong, Jessica York, Earnest |
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