MountainTrue expands river debris cleanup program in WNC and Eastern Tennessee with help of $750,000 grant

The battle against river debris, especially IPEX pipes, still rages on…and will for years • Asheville Watchdog

It’s a wrestling match out there, folks. Every day. And sometimes you accidentally cut a catfish in half with a battery powered saw. More about that later. This is the situation on local waterways such as the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers post-Helene. But especially the French Broad. Last week, MountainTrue, the Asheville-based environmental nonprofit, […]

MountainTrue expands river debris cleanup program in WNC and Eastern Tennessee with help of $750,000 grant

ASHEVILLE — MountainTrue has received a $750,000 grant from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s (CDP) Truist Foundation Western North Carolina Recovery and Resiliency Fund (the Fund) to expand its regional debris cleanup and river restoration program — a historic recovery…