"Swim Guide" released new,up-to-date bacteria monitoring results for eleven monitoring sites at public access points within the Watauga River Basin. Each Friday afternoon throughout the spring ...

Lisenby, 43, will become Boone-based riverkeeper for the upper Watauga River and start Waterkeepers ... credits Lisenby with alerting the upper basin to the Concord-Kannapolis water plan.

Of that, $920 million has already been spent on 544 projects. BOONE, North Carolina — On the whooshing Watauga River, excavators claw at the remains of Shulls Mill Dam, pulling concrete apart ...