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The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation maintains a list of impaired streams in Tennessee. Much of the pollution of our streams is caused by agricultural runoff of chemicals and soils into the waterways. Excess nutrients can deplete oxygen in the water, soils can smother aquatic life on the bottoms of streams.
The Tennessee Environmental Council (TEC) has established a Water Quality Initiative and they are working to rehabilitate impaired water ways. TEC is working with grants from the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and with corporate sponsors. Today we talk to Jordan Young, TEC Director of Field Operations, about this initiative and about an ongoing project to restore Lytle Creek in Rutherford County.