Krista Capps, Associate Director of the River Basin Center, recently brought together experts from across Northeast Georgia who work in different fields related to wastewater infrastructure to discuss current research, policy, and funding needs, future challenges, and potential solutions to emerging problems.
For several years, the River Basin Center has monitored Holly Creek near Chatsworth, a tributary to the Conasauga River, to evaluate the progress of long-term rehabilitation and restoration projects.
Last summer, a minnow called the laurel dace faced extinction when drought dried up the few streams where it lives in southeastern Tennessee. Conservation biologists rescued two populations to keep at the Tennessee Aquarium, and now two Odum School graduate students are working with other researchers and local residents to save the