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Progress at
EDACO
Future Karen Cragnolin
Park
 If you have driven down Amboy road this
past month, you've probably noticed a few changes. D.H.
Griffin has been in demolition mode, ripping up concrete, crushing
it for further processing, and readying it for recycling. The first
phase which was started a few weeks ago should be coming to a close
in about a week. The park will be seeded and strawed until
further testing can be done on the soil. RiverLink hopes to
begin construction on the new Karen Cragnolin Park sometime in early
spring 2009.
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 B&H Update
The view from the Smokey Park Bridge is going to
look much better in the New Year . We will be taking the
B&H Sheet Metal "Blue Buildings" down. RiverLink
bought B&H Sheet Metal in September 2007. In the New
Year we will be starting our Brownfield investigation and
planning the next link in the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay! Take the
survey, buy a
$50 link and stay tuned!
Your input drives
our decisions. Complete a
Survey |
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Muddy Water
Watch
 Want to help cleanup
and stop the spread of the biggest polluter in the watershed?
RiverLink is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant from the
Pigeon River Fund of The Community Foundation of Western North
Carolina, for the RiverLink's Muddy Water Watch program.Read
More
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Volunteer
 Adopt A Stream
Cleanup Tally
60 Bags
19 Tires
12 Oil Absorbing Booms
TV, Couch, Recliner, Toilet, Wicker
Set
to all
teams who gave
their time in November
Leaning Community School, Mosaic Church, Redeemer Church,
Rotary Club, Diamond Brand
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Watershed Education
Read the
Article 
Vance
Elementary School fifth graders identify aquatic insects from
Rhododendron Creek.
© 2007
RiverLink |
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Isaac Dickson Elementary School fifth
grade class learns about watersheds with the Enviroscape
model
© 2007
RiverLink |
 French Broad Riverkeeper Hartwell
Carson shows Swannanoa Montessori School fourth graders a sign
created by RiverLink explaining how rain gardens work. © 2007 RiverLink
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RIVER FACT
State of the River
Report Card
51% of monitored streams in Buncombe County are
rated D or F.
90% of streams in
Transylvania County are rated
A.
20% of streams in Madison County are rated
F.
100% of French Broad River
in Henderson, Madison, and Buncombe counties is above the regional
average for sediment load.
RIVER QUOTE
"What makes a river so restful to people is that
it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and
it doesn't want to go anywhere else." - Hal
Boyle |
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Special
thanks to the Sam Karahalis family and Phase One Construction
Inc. for float design, construction and transportion. We look
forward to next year.
