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  The old steel bridge visible in the background was placed here in the Alaculsy Valley to cross the Jacks River in the 1930’s after it had been used as a bridge on the Highway 411 crossing for over 30 years. The structure was eventually replaced here at the Tennessee – Georgia state line in 2002, with a new concrete and steel structure. Many precautions were used by the construction crews to protect the fish and mussel species that inhabit the river. Interested students from Walker Valley High School, Charleston, Tennessee and their instructor, Brad Montgomery, have developed educational projects in cooperation with the Cherokee National Forest hydrologist, Mike Nicolo. Students are being trained to obtain stream discharge measurements by establishing the relationships between channel width, depth, and flow. This work would allow the eventual placement of a staff gauge, so that river discharge volumes could be determined from the bank. The Walker Valley students are also collecting measurements that can be useful in monitoring the effects of forest road management activity such as a bridge replacement. Students have collected samples of the macro invertebrate populations, evaluated chemical parameters, and done “pebble counts”. Panorama taken October 9, 2001 Also see; |
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