PROTECT YOUR

Tuckasegee River Watershed

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Mission

WATR is a grassroots organization working to improve your water quality and habitat of the Tuckasegee River Basin. The Tuckasegee River watershed supplies the drinking water and ecosystem foundation for Swain and Jackson Counties. What happens upstream, downstream, and all around the watershed impacts all of us directly.

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Please note: Our website domain address has changed from WatrNC.org to ProtectOurWaters-WNC.org

MONITOR

Monitoring the health of our waterways is an essential part of effective stewardship and conservation. WATR teams regularly monitor the tributaries of the Tuckasegee watershed.

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RESTORE

The goal of the WATR Discovery Trails at Monteith Farmstead Park is encourage the stewardship of streamside land, and educate the citizenry on how best to protect riparian zone.

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EDUCATE

WATR is engaged with the community to help educate our citizens of all ages about the importance of watershed protection, conservation, and monitoring.

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Explore the Tuckasegee River

Learn more about the Tuckasegee River’s history, culture, geography, climate and more.

The Tuckasegee River rises in the Blue Ridge mountains, in Pisgah National Forest west of Brevard, North Carolina. It flows some 50 miles (80 km) northwest past Cullowhee, Whittier, and Bryson City, near which it empties into Fontana Lake in the Little Tennessee River. Thorpe Dam (1941), on a fork of the Tuckasegee 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Bryson City, impounds Lake Glenville. The river’s name probably comes from that of a Cherokee village, Tsiksitsi (meaning “crawling terrapin,” for the sluggish movement of the waters), that once stood on its banks.

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Together We Make a Difference

WATR, at it’s heart, is a volunteer organization. We depend on each other to keep informed about problems and to work towards solutions. We are looking for volunteers to assist with Field events and Association Activities.

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