Big Canoe Creek Monitoring Project
Our Big Canoe Creek Monitoring Project is designed to study water quality in the Big Canoe watershed that begins near Springville, flows through Ashville, and drain to Neely Henry Lake.
It is home to numerous threatened and endangered species, and is really popular for boating, swimming, fishing, and paddling. Through our Swim Guide program, however, we have detected water quality issues that could make it unsafe for recreation. This monitoring project aims to identify problem areas and seek solutions to improve water quality.
We will for five weeks to collect a geometric mean that will help us not only determine possible point-source and non-point sources of pollution, it will also allow us to determine if the creek’s current use classification best represents the creek’s use by the community.
A summary of each week’s data is listed below and correspond with icons on the map. NOTE: Some sampling sites and private property and not accessible to the public.