Savannah Riverkeeper Challenge
Tonya Bonitatibus, Savannah Riverkeeper, travels from Tybee to Augusta by boat over 14 days in March. Click on the video link below to watch and learn more about the Savannah Riverkeeper Challenge.
Invitation to Weekend for Rivers 2012 Party
Here is an invitation to the Weekend for Rivers 2012 party. It will be in the outdoor pavilion this year. To buy tickets go to www.garivers.org.
12in2012 Stories
To submit your 12in2012 stories and pictures, email us at info@garivers.org. To view already submitted stories and pictures, go here.
EPA’s “Sense of Wonder” Contest
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invites the public to submit creative projects to the 6th annual Rachel Carson intergenerational “Sense of Wonder” contest. There are four categories: photography, essay, poetry and dance. This year, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, the contest will focus on a “Sense of Water.”
Contest submissions are encouraged to focus on the various properties of water – how it tastes, what it sounds like, how it feels – and what water means to the entrants.
For more info, click on the link.
http://www.epa.gov/aging/resources/thesenseofwonder/index.htm
First Breaching of River Dam for Whitewater Course
“The first phase in construction of the $23 million, 2½ mile Chattahoochee River whitewater course in Columbus is edging closer to completion.
But the gradual demolition of the Eagle & Phenix dam still is weeks away, and the finishing touches to the course likely won’t happen until late 2013 or early 2014, Uptown Columbus President Richard Bishop said Wednesday during a visit to the construction site.” – Tim Chitwood, Journalist for Ledger Enquirer
Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2012/02/09/1925922/whitewater-course-first-breaching.html#storylink=cpy
Paddle GA Registration – Feb 14
Paddle Georgia registration opens February 14…
New Staff Member: Debra Tate – Administrative Assistant
Meet our new administrative assistant Debra Tate. Read her bio here: http://garivers.org/about/staff.html#Debra
Georgia Great Outdoors Festival – Ellijay, GA
Georgia Great Outdoors Festival
When: April 28-29, 2012
Where: Lions Club Fairgrounds, 1729 S. Main St, Ellijay, GA 30540
Cost: $5 per person/ 10 and under Free
Come out for a weekend long event for EVERYTHING outdoors in Georgia! It’s a rain or shine outside event beside the Coosawattee River in beautiful Ellijay, GA!
Tour of Sustainable Stormwater – Hosted By: SRWA
TOUR OF SUSTAINABLE STORMWATER
Saturday, February 11th
10am – 12:30
Location: Old Clarkesville Mill – 583 Grant Street, Suite A, Clarkesville, GA 30523
The tour will primarily focus on Sustainable Stormwater. Participants will visit three different sites in and around Clarkesville, including the site of the new County Courthouse.
Be the first to see plans for the new County Courthouse
including 3 first of their kind innovative stormwater features!
In addition to the sustainability tour announced above, the Soque River Watershed Association (SRWA) will host three more seasonal sustainability tours in 2012. Each tour will highlight the unique ways that community partners are working hard to make Habersham County more sustainable. Their quarterly schedule of tours are the following:
• WINTER Stormwater Tour on February 11th
• SPRING Farm Tour on April 21st
• SUMMER Water Conservation Tour on July 21st
• FALL Grist Mill Tour on October 20th
