WATeR President talks WATeR on WATE
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Tree Ordering has gone live!
Tennessee Tree Day 2023 is the largest community tree-planting project of its kind in America, taking place on Saturday, March 18, 2023! You and other Tennessee residents will collectively pick up and plant more than 95,000 native tree seedlings in all 95 Tennessee counties during the weekend of March 18th, 2023. The trees are yours to plant on your own property and will enhance our environment and communities for generations to come!
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TAKE THE PLUNGE!
January 1, 2023 at HIGH NOON at Poplar Springs!
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Don't Miss It!
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The WATeR Annual Meeting was held 11/16/22. Darrel Quinn from TVA was the main speaker and the meeting was well attended:
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WATeR Annual Meeting
Date: Wednesday November 16, 2022
Time: 7 PM
Fellowship Hall of the The Community Church
at Tellico Village (130 Chota Center, Loudon, TN)
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Read the article in The Connection
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First Report on 2022 Lake Cleanup​
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Read why you should not blow your leaves into our lake.
​WATeR samples locations on Tellico Lake
published 5/12/21 in The Connection
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Asian carp remain in West Tennessee
Latest update published in The Connection 4/7/21
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​The Tennessee Riverline
is a vision for a continuous, multimodal system of trail experiences along the Tennessee River from its formation in Knoxville, TN, to its confluence with the Ohio River in Paducah, KY. You can read the annual report here: Tennessee Riverline annual report and visit their website here: https://www.tnriverline.org/
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published 12/2/20 in The Connection
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History of WATeR and its Major Programs
published 11/20 in Mountain Views
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2020 Annual Report and in addition a history of WATeR's amazing 20 year story.
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Firewater Ultra races East Lakeshore Trail.
10/24/2020
100K Race takes 13.44 hours
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Starts in daylight. Ends in dark!
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Maintaining cleaner embayments possible
Published 10/21/20 in The Connection
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Are the fish safe to eat from the lake
Published 9/9/20 in The Connection and 9/20 in Mountain Views
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Stormwater impacts more than we realize
Published 7/22/20 in The Connection
Published 7/1/20 in The Connection
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Consider a watering plan this summer
Published 6/10/20 in The Connection
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Fertilizer pollution enters Tellico Lake
Published 5/20/20 in The Connection
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Human and animal pollution entering in the lake
Published May 2020 in The Connection
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WATeR Investigates lake 'greening'
published 4/15/20 in The Connection
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published in Mountain View
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How many names are right for Tellico Lake
published 3/11/20 in The Connection
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The many roles of one body of water
published 2/19/20 in The Connection
WATeR: To protect the water quality of our lake published 2/5/2020 in The Connection
Dave Noble has ALS and he is fighting back
Help him on October 3
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Dave Noble was a trail builder and leader of the Soggy Bottom Kayakers. On July 1, 2020, he was diagnosed with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease. He is doing his best to fight back. He has started a team, the Noble Dawgs, to raise funds to take a chomp out of ALS
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Please consider joining Dave's team, the Noble Dawgs, and walking one mile to take a chomp out of ALS on October 3rd. You can do this on your own, with your own small group, or as a part of a socially distanced Tellico Village group (time and place to be determined).
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To join team Noble Dawgs click here:
http://webtn.alsa.org/site/TR?team_id=391849&pg=team&fr_id=14339&et=gxHtQeum0XYrGLFZdIEK3A
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If you cannot walk, you can donate directly to Dave's personal page:
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http://webtn.alsa.org/site/TR?fr_id=14339&pg=personal&px=8482162
All are invited to the WATeR Annual Meeting
Wednesday, November 13
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​Keynote speaker: Stephen Lyn Bales, author of 3 books and Ijams Nature Center Interpretative Naturalist (Retired) will be presenting “Conservation Success Stories in the Tennessee River Valley."
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6:30 p.m. at the Tellico Village Community Church, 130 Chota Ctr, Loudon, TN.
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Firewater Ultra races East Lakeshore Trail.
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91 runners race up to 100K, up and back, about 62 miles.
10/19/19
