Please join us for a planning meeting to discuss this situation and create a community action plan at the next Watauga River Conservation Partners meeting on Monday November 2, 2009 at 5:00 pm at the Ag Conference Center on 252 Poplar Grove Road in Boone, NC.

In September 2009 the Watauga Riverkeeper received a report on our pollution hotline about a huge water withdrawal and diversion occurring in the headwaters reach of the Watauga River just below Grandfather Mountain. On October 20, 2009-more than thirty days after the appropriate regulatory agencies were notified we went out to investigate what corrective action had been required and this is what we found:

We need your help protecting the pristine trout waters and habitat of the Upper Watauga River.  We cordially invite you to be a part of the team that gets this problem fixed. Please send a link to this video and blog post to anyone you think may be interested in learning more about this situation. Encourage them to join us at the next Watauga River Conservation Partners meeting on Monday November 2 at 5:00 pm at the Ag Conference Center in Boone. The meeting is free and open to the public.

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