Brooke Fleeman

Summer Monitoring: July 15th

It’s WaterWays WEEK SIX of our summer water quality testing initiative. We will be monitoring the health of popular local creeks and swimming holes. The “Summer Swim Report” will provide weekly water monitoring for the following areas:Greenway FarmBig Soddy Creek GulfAudubon AcresRainbow LakeMiddle CreekSuck CreekWaterWays’ staff and volunteers will collect and test water samples weekly …

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Summer Monitoring: July 8th

It’s WaterWays WEEK FIVE of our summer water quality testing initiative. We will be monitoring the health of popular local creeks and swimming holes. The “Summer Swim Report” will provide weekly water monitoring for the following areas:Greenway FarmBig Soddy Creek GulfAudubon AcresRainbow LakeMiddle CreekSuck CreekWaterWays’ staff and volunteers will collect and test water samples weekly …

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Summer Monitoring: June 24th

It’s WaterWays WEEK THREE of our summer water quality testing initiative. We will be monitoring the health of popular local creeks and swimming holes. The “Summer Swim Report” will provide weekly water monitoring for the following areas:Greenway FarmBig Soddy Creek GulfAudubon AcresRainbow LakeMiddle CreekSuck CreekWaterWays’ staff and volunteers will collect and test water samples weekly …

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Summer Monitoring: June 17th

It’s WaterWays WEEK TWO of our summer water quality testing initiative. We will be monitoring the health of popular local creeks and swimming holes. The “Summer Swim Report” will provide weekly water monitoring for the following areas:Greenway FarmBig Soddy Creek GulfAudubon AcresRainbow LakeMiddle CreekSuck CreekWaterWays’ staff and volunteers will collect and test water samples weekly …

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Summer Monitoring: June 10th

WaterWays is launching a summer water quality testing initiative starting this week to monitor the health of popular local creeks and swimming holes. The “Summer Swim Report” will provide weekly water monitoring for the following areas:Greenway FarmBig Soddy Creek GulfAudubon AcresRainbow LakeMiddle CreekSuck CreekWaterWays’ staff and volunteers will collect and test water samples weekly through …

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Signal Mtn Library Day

Mayfly nymphs, salamanders, dragonfly nymphs, and snails from Mountain Creek, which is just down the mountain, came to visit the Signal Mountain Library. Our young scientists were stoked to observe their local critters, using their senses to guess what kind of adaptations serve each organism. Patrons learned about how these aniamls rely on clean water …

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Signal Mtn. Creek Day

Visitors to Rainbow Lake were invited to join WaterWays Program Coordinator, Peri Anne, in locating aquatic macroinvertebrates present in the creek. Visitors learned that Rainbow Lake, a tributary of Middle Creek, supports a great number of biodiversity to include crayfish, mayfly naymphs, dragonfly nymphs, crane fly nymphs, caddisfly nymphs, and salamanders. After being amazed at …

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Kids 4 Clean Water Camp

Campers enjoyed nature hikes at McCoy Farm & Gardens, treks to Rainbow Lake to cool off by jumping in and also catching aquatic macroinvertebrates. We learned about life cycles, the water cycle, watersheds, and indicator species. We also got to enjoy a Salamander Slip in Slide and tested our skills at building beaver dams. Our …

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Summer Celebration

Students from the city’s Boys & Girls Clubs were able to visit the beautiful Booker T. Washington State Park to enjoy the outdoors while also chatting with some environmental professionals! WaterWays discussed the importance of clean water with a little help from some plastic bugs and rubber bait. Students were able to complete a model …

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Save Water Soirée!

Friday, March 27 –  5:30 pm

We hope you will join us on Friday, March 27th, for an evening celebrating stewardship of our local watersheds.