Contact information for these groups often changes and every effort is made to keep information current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you know of a change that needs to be made, or a group that needs to be included, please contact us<\/a> for revisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Contact Address:<\/strong> Scott County SCD, PO Box 4675 Contact:<\/strong> Gary Barrigar Contact:<\/strong> Gary Barrigar Contact:<\/strong> John Harwood Contact Address:<\/strong> SPO 1269, University of the South Contact:<\/strong> Linda B. Harris Contact:<\/strong> David Tate or Current Conservation Officer Contact:<\/strong> Carol Moore Contact:<\/strong> Michael L. Graham Contact:<\/strong> Carol Moore Contact:<\/strong> Frank Sagona, Watershed Director Contact:<\/strong> Thomas Bolden Contact:<\/strong> Pam Wolfe Contact:<\/strong> Margot Farnsworth, Executive Director Contact:<\/strong> Sandy Adams Contact:<\/strong> McFadden, John Contact:<\/strong> Gary Barriger URL: http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/owow\/watershed\/wacademy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Contact:<\/strong> Thomas Embrey; Ellen Williams Contact:<\/strong> Phillip Gibson Contact:<\/strong> Nikki Cooper Activity:<\/strong> Watershed Alliance\/Council Contact:<\/strong> June Crews Contact:<\/strong> Dr Gerrit L VerschuurBear Creek<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Oneida, Tennessee 37841-4675
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 423-623-7650
Activity:<\/strong> Watershed Alliance\/Council
Description:<\/strong> None Provided<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBoone Watershed Partnership<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 708 Allen Ave.
Elizabethton, TN 37643
Contact Phone:<\/strong> (423) 543-7576
Contact Email: barrigargn@earthlink.net<\/a><\/strong>
URL:<\/strong> http:\/\/boonewatershed.org\/<\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Watershed Alliance\/Council
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 30; 750 members<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n<\/a>Buffalo Creek Watershed Alliance<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 708 Allen Avenue
<\/strong>Elizabethton, TN 37643
Contact Phone:<\/strong> (423) 543-7547
Contact Email: barrigargn@earthlink.net<\/a><\/strong>
Activity:<\/strong> Meetings are every other month. Activities include stream monitoring, litter collections and stream restoration.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCaney Fork Watershed Association<\/a> (CFWA)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> CFWA, P.O. Box 165, Cookeville, TN 38503
Contact Phone:<\/strong> (931) 528-6395
Contact Email:<\/strong> cfwa@blomand.net<\/a>
URL:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.cfwa-tn.org<\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Public Education; Public Service; Watershed Research
Description:<\/strong> CFWA is a member organization of the Cumberland River Compact. We host public meetings, sponsor watershed education field days & stream cleanups, provide a web-based watershed recreation site map, and engage in research to promote the health of the Caney Fork Watershed. Find out more at our website. Care for your watershed, for water is life.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCarter Martin Whitewater Club<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Sewanee, Tennessee 37375
Activity:<\/strong> Watershed Alliance\/Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n<\/a>Chickamauga-Hiwassee Watershed Team<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 1101 Market Street, PSC-1E
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801
Contact Phone:<\/strong> (423) 876-4178
Contact Email:<\/strong> lbharris@tva.gov<\/strong><\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Watershed Alliance\/Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nChota Canoe Club<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> PO Box 8270, University Station
Knoxville, Tennessee 37916
Contact Email:<\/strong> chota@korrnet.org<\/strong><\/a>
URL:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.korrnet.org\/chota<\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Watershed Alliance\/Council
Description:<\/strong> Whitewater Paddling club of over 300 members, active in river conservation.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> varies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nClinch River Chapter of Trout Unlimited<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 3502 Overlook Circle
Knoxville, Tennessee 37909
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 865-584-0344
Contact Email: clmoore@geoe.com<\/a><\/strong>
URL:<\/strong> www.crctu.com<\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> The Clinch River Chapter of Trout Unlimited focuses its programs and projects on protecting and enhancing the Clinch River tail water and its watershed. The watershed upstream from Norris Dam, which extends well into Southwestern Virginia, consists of almost 3,000 square miles. The watershed area from the dam to the Highway 61 Bridge, approximately 68 square miles (43,520 acres), is comprised of three sub watersheds: Coal Creek, Cane Creek, and Clear Creek. Coal Creek is the larges and is approximately 35 square miles in area extent.
Description:<\/strong> The Clinch River Chapter is involved in numerous activities including working with the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation in a long-term effort to not only improve the biological integrity of the 35 square mile watershed but also to improve the quality of life for watershed residents. Coal Creek watershed has a fascinating history dating back to the 18th century and suffers from the socio-economic problems typically found in rural Appalachian coalfield communities. For more details on this significant project go to the following website: www.coalcreekaml.com<\/a>Other Chapter projects include shoreline\/bank stabilization demonstrations, youth environmental education activities, water quality studies, trout food habits studies, aquatic macro invertebrate studies, and annual river cleanups.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> Approximately 100 members<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n<\/a>Clinch River Project<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 110 North Hicks Street
Clinton, Tennessee 37716
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 423-457-3451
Contact Email:<\/strong> Mgraham@acs.ac<\/a><\/strong>
URL:<\/strong> Under construction<\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Volunteer Monitoring
Description:<\/strong> The Clinch River Project is involved with three streams. The first is an impact study involving the effect of our local high school and an apartment complex on the overall biotic health of an adjoining stream. The second stream project involves benthic macroinvertebrate analysis, flow rates, chemical analysis, and a cold water aquaculture system, which results in the increased overall trout population on a protected trout stream, ( Clear Creek). The third stream project is a restoration of a …MORE…<\/strong><\/a>
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 650<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCoal Creek Watershed Foundation, Inc.<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 3502 Overlook Circle
Knoxville, Tennessee 37909
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 865-584-0344
Contact Email: clmoore@geoe.com<\/a><\/strong>
URL:<\/strong> www.coalcreekaml.com<\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Projects with water quality, bank stabilization, flood prevention, Coal Creek Scholars program to encourage first generation college attendance, health and dental care, promote the rich coal mining history of the Coal Creek area to promote history, tourism and economic development, community restoration.
Description\/Mission:<\/strong> To improve the quality of life in the Coal Creek Watershed.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> Several hundred have volunteered since the inception in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nConasauga River Alliance<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 125 Red Bud Road N.E.,Suite 7
Calhoun, Georgia 30701
Contact Phone:<\/strong> (706) 625-7044
Contact Email: franksagona@hotmail.com<\/a><\/strong> or fjsagona@aol.com<\/a><\/strong>
URL: http:\/\/www.conasaugariver.net<\/a><\/strong>
Activity:<\/strong> BMP implementation; education and outreach; fund-raising; cleanups; workshops; water quality monitoring
Description:<\/strong> The Alliance is a bi-state GA & TN non-profit watershed organization working to protect and improve the Conasauga River. the Conasauga is one of the few remaining biologically rich headwater streams in the southeast U.S. with 72 species of fish (including endangered darters), numerous endangered mussels, and many sensitive macroinvertebrates. The Conasauga supports and supplies water to the carpet industry in Dalton, GA. the river is 90 miles long and part of the Mobile Bay drainage. The watershed is primarily national forest lands on the upper end, with an agricultural-rural mid-section, and urban-suburban-industrial lower end.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 25-member standing board (appointed volunteers) from TN and GA; 100-300 volunteers per year for activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCub Creek Watershed District<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 1720 Maxwell Rd.
Bolivar, Tennessee 38008
Contact Phone:<\/strong> (901) 376-8821
Activity:<\/strong> Watershed Alliance\/Council
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 3 members<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n<\/a>Cumberland Coalition<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 612 River Ridge Ct
Nashville, Tennessee 37221
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 615-269-5461
Activity:<\/strong> Watershed Alliance\/Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCumberland River Compact<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> P.O. Box 41721
Nashville, Tennessee 37204
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 615-837-1151
Contact Email:<\/strong> info@cumberlandcompact.org<\/a>
URL:<\/strong> http:\/\/cumberlandrivercompact.org\/<\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Education Project\/Program
Description:<\/strong> Mission:<\/em> To enhance the water quality of the Cumberland River and its tributaries through education and by promoting cooperation among citizens, businesses, and agencies in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> about 100<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nDel Rio Elementary School<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 500 South Highway 107
Del Rio, Tennessee 37727
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 423-487-5570
Contact Email:<\/strong> adamss@mail.cocke.k12.tn.us<\/strong><\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Education Project\/Program
Description:<\/strong> A newly started project, students have been testing the water for dissolved oxygen and pH weekly, as well as studying stream quality through organisms present. Students have been involved in the clean up and development of a plot of land belonging to the school district, located across from the school. The community is working diligently to develop this 8 acres into a Nature Center. We are presently in the planning stage of landscaping the area near the creek so that we can more easily access i …MORE…<\/strong><\/a>
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> approximately 30 at present (not including school members)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nDuck River Opportunities Project (DROP)<\/a>, Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association (TSRA)<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> One Vantage Way
Nashville, Tennessee 37228
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 615-248-6500
Contact Email:<\/strong> john@tectn.org<\/a>
URL:<\/strong> http:\/\/paddletsra.org\/<\/a>, http:\/\/www.tectn.org\/display_headline.php?id=55<\/a>
Activity:<\/strong>Restoration\/Conservation Project
Description:<\/strong> The Duck River Opportunities (DROP) began in December of 1999 with the intent to identify and abate nonpoint source (NPS) water pollution in the Duck River watershed. DROP then formed a partnership with GM-Spring Hill and began working with the Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN) to educate young people about the importance of water quality in our streams and how civic action can have a positive effect to improve local streams. DROP works in school classrooms and out in the creeks with young people and mentors from GM, gathering water quality data (aquatic insects (benthic macroinvertebrates), chemistry and habitat characteristics) and looking for ways young people can take local civic action to improve their local streams and rivers. DROP is also working with local communities to try to establish a citizen-led watershed conservation group in the Duck River watershed. Other DROP activities include working in the Rutherford Creek watershed with individual landowners to implement Best Management Practices to help improve water quality and working with the community to develop a watershed restoration plan.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> ~20<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n<\/a>Elizabethton High School Ecology Club<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 907 West E Street
Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643
Contact Phone:<\/strong> (423) 547-8015
Contact Email:<\/strong> barrigarg@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us<\/strong> <\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Education Project\/Program, Restoration\/Conservation Project
Description:<\/strong> Many of the club’s efforts have been concentrated on our adopted watersheds of two streams: Buffalo Creek and the Doe River. Each May the club participates in the Annual Watauga River Clean-up sponsored by Trout Unlimited. After the Doe River flood in 1998, the Ecology Club helped with the clean-up. We also helped with stream bank restoration by planting trees. Club members utilize digital test kits to test for chemical parameters on a monthly basis. We also test for fecal coliform bacteria a …MORE…<\/strong><\/a>
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nEPA Watershed Academy<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nFayette County Water Education Team<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> c\/o Lene Harris, Secondary Supervisor Fayette County Schools, P.O. Box 9
Somerville, Tennessee 38068-0009
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 901 465-5262
Activity:<\/strong> Volunteer Monitoring
Description:<\/strong> Fayette County Water Education Team teaches students to conduct physical and chemical tests and to search for biological specimens.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nFrench Broad Riverkeeper<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 170 Lyman Street
Asheville, North Carolina
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 828.252.8474 ext 114
Contact Email:<\/strong> phillip@riverlink.org<\/strong><\/a>
URL:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.riverlink.org<\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Watershed Alliance\/Council
Description:<\/strong> To protect and improve the French Broad River watershed as a place to work, live, and play. Tennessee counties include Blount, Greene, Sevier, Jefferson, and Cocke.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 200+<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n<\/a>Friends of Our Rivers and Streams<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> PO Box 139
Hampton, Tennessee 37658
Contact Email:<\/strong> trash@preferred.com<\/strong><\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Volunteer Monitoring
Description:<\/strong> to investigate pollution in and near the Laurel Fork Creek and to forecast where flood damage will occur to avoid the building of levees
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> depends on project, working in the school system<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n<\/a>Friends of South Fork Holston River<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 25 members<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nFriends of the Tennessee River<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 1174 North Shore Drive
Florence, Alabama 35634
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 205-757-2430
Contact Email:<\/strong> rjcrews@HiWAAY.net<\/strong><\/a>
Activity:<\/strong> Watershed Alliance\/Council
Description:<\/strong> A group of citizens working together to promote the health of the Tennessee Valley population through promoting the health of the Tennessee River.
Number of Volunteers:<\/strong> 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nGarner Lake Association<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Contact Address:<\/strong> 4125 Yellow Cedar Cv
Lakeland, Tennessee 38002
Contact Phone:<\/strong> 901-372-5932
Contact Email:<\/strong>