Mitchell River Watershed Protection and Restoration Project

SERVICE FUNDING PURPOSE:  To protect, enhance, and restore eroding and degrading streams and to improve water quality and aquatic habitat within the Mitchell River Watershed

OTHER PARTNERS/MATCHING FUNDS:
 

•   North Carolina Division of Water Resources (Stream Restoration: $90,000).
•   North Carolina Division of Water Quality, EPA Section 319 Project (Non-point source pollution: $90,000).
•   Duke Power (Sediment monitoring: 83,400, first year set-up; and $10,000/year subsequent).
•   North Carolina Agricultural Cost Share Program (Best Management Practices: $75,000).
•   North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund (Protection, planning, public education, restoration: $800,000).
•   North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension Service.
•   North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
•   Surry County Soil and Water Conservation District.
•   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
•   Piedmont Land Conservancy.
•   Foothills Nature Science Society.
•   Mitchell River Preservation Committee.
•   Mitchell River Streamwatch.
•   Natural Resources Conservation Service.
•   Pilot View Resource Conservation and Development.

Brook Floater (left), and Common Elliptio (right), freshwater mussels

PUBLIC BENEFITS:

•   Improve and protect water quality and habitat within the only state-designated Outstanding Resource Water in the north-central piedmont.
•   Improve and protect habitat for the Brook Floater (Alasmidonta varicosa), a federal species of concern (NC state-listed: threatened).
•   Improve and protect habitat for the bog turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii) - a federal species of concern (NC state-listed: threatened).
•   Protection of recreational and cultural features along the river.

For additional information regarding this Web page, contact John Ann Shearer, in Raleigh, NC, at johnann_shearer@fws.gov

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