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Have you ever seen mud running off a construction site or the French Broad River chocolate brown?
RiverLink’s Muddy Water Watch program is bringing a lot more attention to these sites. Over 35 volunteers from Henderson, Buncombe, Madison, and Yancey Counties are now patrolling their neighborhoods to look for sediment running off construction sites. These sites are responsible for a severe degradation of our waterways and have made sediment the number one polluter in the French Broad Watershed. Muddy Water Watch is a state-wide initiative to reduce sediment pollution by providing training materials to help volunteers understand erosion control violations, and how they can monitor and improve erosion control violations. The work of these volunteers has resulted in dozens of polluted sites being tracked online at imrivers. This site allows the public to see the severity and wide spread problem that is caused from failing erosion control measures. This pictures and reports on this site have resulted in several enforcement actions to clean up sediment violations. RiverLink is again gearing up to train another round of volunteers to become Muddy Water Watchers. The first of three trainings starts September 9th. For more information contact the French Broad Riverkeeper at Riverkeeper@riverlink.org or 828-252-8474 ext. 114. Please see www.riverlink.org for more info. (Image provided by RiverLink.)
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