The second Neighborhood Environmental College meeting took place at the South Chattanooga Community Center, featuring four speakers on the topic of water quality and outdoor recreation! We heard from Tennessee River Gorge Trust, Outdoor Chattanooga, H2O Life and a nature journaler/member of the WildOnes native plant group about their connection to outdoor recreation in Chattanooga …
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 …
WaterWays, with generous support from the American Water Charitable Foundation, partnered with Environmental Science and STEM students at Chattanooga Charter School of Excellence to explore water quality through hands-on activities and field trips. Throughout the project, students gained valuable knowledge of water issues that directly impact both local and global ecosystems. They learned about point …
Partners from the Chattanooga Zoo, Volkswagen, TN Ornithological Society joined us at the Summit Wetland at Enterprise South Nature Park to identify as many species as possible! Participants learned how to safely and respectfully flip logs and rocks in order to look for salamanders and amphibians. They also learned how to use binoculars and even …
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, …
Our third Neighborhood Environmental College session was one we’ve never had before. A consulting group in charge of the remediation efforts of the former Velsicol chemical manufacturing site in Alton Park hosted a mandatory public meeting to update the community on their practices and potential future use of the site. Given the history of contamination …
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 …
WaterWays was delighted to help support Our Voices Chattanooga with their non-partisan mission to increase civic engagement among young people in our region. This event highlighted the power of the individual to spark change and inspired present and future activism through words of poetry (thanks to brilliant local poet, Erika Roberts) and ‘zine’ making. Zine …
On Friday, April 8th, staff members from local Publix stores volunteered at the WaterWays office and Gear Closet retail store, located on Signal Mountain Road over Stringer’s Branch—yes, it’s literally over the stream. The building is constructed on a bridge that spans Stringer’s Branch, which flows beneath the shop and Signal Mountain Road, flowing to …
High school students from the Chattanooga Charter School of Excellence’s STEM class visited Reflection Riding for an exciting day filled with canoeing, water quality assessments, and a tour of the park’s native animal exhibit. Thanks to the American Water Keeping Communities Flowing grant, these students have been engaged in the WaterWays program throughout the year, …
We hope you will join us on Friday, March 27th, for an evening celebrating stewardship of our local watersheds.
