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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
WaterWays was delighted to celebrate the “Race for the Laurel Dace” in Spring City. This inaugural event was hosted by the Tennessee Aquarium and Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute. We commend Spring City and our friends at the aquarium for their commitment to restoration and conservation of this adorable fish species. We also got to meet …
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 …
The last NEC session featured two lectures on water quality! Thalika Hollingsworth, Source Water Protection Program Manager at Tennessee American Water, began the session with a captivating presentation on the origins of our tap water and the importance of maintaining its purity. The next talk was from WaterWays very own sustainable landscape ecologist, Rosy Harpe, …
With Chattanooga recently recognized as a National Park City, our local Volkswagen plant hosted its very own biodiversity day to highlight the city’s incredible natural features. As you walk into the conference center on Volkswagen’s campus, you are greeted by goats from Audubon Acres! Not only were they available for kids to pet, but their …
Nature by the Pint closes out the 2025 season! Last but not least was a compelling talk by Auburn PhD student Savanna Wooten. With an introduction into the discipline of paleolimnology, Wooten’s charm made an intimidating field of study approachable for us in the audience. Using sediment cores to reconstruct lake use for both ancient …
On March 22nd, World Water Day, WaterWays and Hamilton County Parks joined forces to install a Litter Boom at the outflow of the Citico Creek watershed. In Chattanooga, all watersheds eventually flow into the Tennessee River, and the Citico Creek Watershed is particularly notable as it both begins and ends within the city’s boundaries. Starting …
We hope you will join us on Friday, March 27th, for an evening celebrating stewardship of our local watersheds.
