This just in from TVA:

Due to rising water temperatures, TVA will be moving fish from east of Dike 2 into the Emory River. Water temperatures east of Dike 2 are rising. As temperatures go up, dissolved oxygen goes down. These conditions cause stress to fish trapped in this body of water and could cause a fish kill. To prevent this, TVA will collect the fish by electroshocking, then will remove them and transport them to be released into the Emory River near the end of Lakeshore Drive. This process is not harmful to the fish; TVA uses electro-shocking to perform its sportfish surveys every year. The fish rescue will take most of the day to complete. The best place to view the move is on Swan Pond Circle Road just west of the intersection with Lakeshore Drive.

Due to rising water temperatures, TVA will be moving fish from east of Dike 2 into the Emory River. Water temperatures east of Dike 2 are rising. As temperatures go up, dissolved oxygen goes down. These conditions cause stress to fish trapped in this body of water and could cause a fish kill. To prevent this, TVA will collect the fish by electroshocking, then will remove them and transport them to be released into the Emory River near the end of Lakeshore Drive. This process is not harmful to the fish; TVA uses electro-shocking to perform its sportfish surveys every year. The fish rescue will take most of the day to complete. The best place to view the move is on Swan Pond Circle Road just west of the intersection with Lakeshore Drive.

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The Guy and I took a drive out to Kingston, TN last weekend.  Usually I like hanging my head out the window.  This drive was different, though.  Outside of some big trucks that needed to be growled at, the car ride was very quiet.  So much has gone wrong there.  I wasn’t allowed out of the truck because the Guy wasn’t sure about the water.  I wasn’t either.

When we got home the guy got busy on something for a little while so that he can post it here.  It is a map that will show you some videos and pictures from news sources as well as link you to websites that can provide you with information about what is in this water.  There are also overlays of the threatened watersheds.  Even if you are not close to the Kingston Coal Plant, it is important that you keep yourself current on the news concerning your watershed!

We would all like to let our neighbors in the the areas surrounding the Kingston Coal Plant that we are thinking of them and continue to hope for the best.