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PIGEON RIVER FUND GRANTS SPRING 1996-SPRING 2006

Listed below are projects that have been supported by the Pigeon River Fund. They are listed in chronological order under each of the four funding categories, beginning with those grants awarded in Spring 1996. Each listing includes the organization, the amount received from the Pigeon River Fund, the project title, and where the project is located (H=Haywood, B=Buncombe, and M=Madison). The project number at the start of each listing coincides with the Project Map (Click on Project Map button, left).

 
 
CREATING BUFFERS AND INCREASING ACCESS
  Organization Grant Project Title County
C1 Canton Papertown (Spring 96) $9,000 Greenway Master Plan H
C2 Haywood Planning Department $9,000 Greenway Plan H
C3 Richland Creek Action Committee $7,802 Greenway Work H
C4 City of Asheville (Fall 96) $10,000 Broadway Greenway B
C5 RiverLink $20,000 Amboy Road Greenway B
C6 Town of Mars Hill $6,000 Gabriel's Creek Greenway M
C7 Haywood County (Spring 97) $6,000 Educational Work Sessions H
C8 Town of Woodfin $7,000 River Park Master Plan B
C9

Town of Maggie Valley
(Spring 98)

 $18,000 Planning of Pilot Greenway H
C10 Town of Maggie Valley (Fall 1998) $20,000 Greenway Development H
C11 Richland Creek Action Committee (Spring 1999) $20,000 Greenway Easement Acquisition H
C12 Town of Marshall $10,443 Blannahasset Island Trail M
C13 Town of Fletcher (Fall 1999) $20,000 Master Plan for Stream Protection H
C14 City of Asheville (Spring 2000) $21,940 Broadway/Reed Creek Greenway B
C15 Quality Forward $15,000 Swannanoa River Greenway B
C16 RiverLink $20,000 Phase IV French Broad River Greenway B
C17 Town of Maggie Valley $18,848 Jonathan Creek Demonstration Greenway B
C18 Town of Waynesville/Richland Creek Action Committee $10,000 Greenway development H
C19 Mountain Housing Opportunities $15,000 Greenway development B
C20 Town of Fletcher $25,000 Bridge and park area of greenway B
C21 Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
(Fall 2002) 		$15,000 Rough Creek Watershed Riparian Buffer Preservation B
C22 UNC Asheville Foundation
(Spring 2003)		 $19,200 Phase II of the Glenn’s Creek Greenway B
C23 Haywood County/Richland Creek Action Committee
(Fall 2003)		 $27,000 Haywood County Greenways H
C24 Mountain Housing Opportunities
(Spring 2004)		 $25,000 Restoration of Prospect Park and Clingman Forest Greenway B
C25 Land-of-Sky Regional Council
(Fall 2004)		 $15,000 Regional Greenway Conference H-B-M
C26 RiverLink, Inc. $15,047 Azalea Road Greenways Project B
C27 Haywood County/ Richland Creek Action Committee
(Spring 2005)		 $16,500 Haywood County Greenways Coordinator H
C28 Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District $19,400 Mars Hill Educational Trail M
C29 Ebbs Chapel School Foundation
(Fall 2005)		 $20,000 Laurel Creek Greenway Education Trail M
C30 Town of Black Mountain $24,880 Flat Creek Greenway B
C31 Ebbs Chapel School Foundation
(Spring 2006)		 $6,250 Wetlands Acquisition (CWMTF Match) M
CONTROLLING POLLUTION
  Organization Grant Project Title County
P1 Haywood Soil and Water (Spring 96) $20,000 Dairy Waste Management H
P2 Land Of Sky Regional Council $3,000 Storm Drain Stenciling H,B,M
P3 Coop. Extension-Haywood County $13.700 Trout Farm Waste Management H
P4 RiverLink $10,000 Volunteer Water Monitoring H,M
P5 SW Resource Conservation $5,000 Building Site Stabilization H
P6 Town of Waynesville $5,000 Richland Creek Improvements H
P7 YMCA $5,000 Storm Drain Stenciling B
P8 Canton Papertown (Fall 96) $10,000 Signage/Bank Stabilization H
P9 SW Resource Conservation $10,000 Streambank Restoration Fund H
P10 Blue Ridge Parkway (Spring 97) $5,500 Graveyard Fields Access H
P11 Madison County $10,000 Waterway Litter Removal M
P12 Quality Forward $5,000 Start up of Adopt-A-Stream B
P13 RiverLink $13,609 VWIN Expansion H,M
P14 SEJAC/ Lake Junaluska $7,500 Monitoring/Sediment Work H
P15 Madison Co. Health Department (Fall 97) $23,700 Straight Pipe Elimination M
P16 SW Resource Conversation $20,000 Stream Bank Restoration- PhaseII H
P17 Land of Sky Regional Council (Spring 98) $10,000 Plan for Nonpoint Pollution B,M
P18 Quality Forward $5,300 Adopt-A-Stream Expansion B
P19 SW Resource Conservation $4,060 Big East Fork Clean-Up H
P20 UNC-Asheville $7,500 Glenn Creek Improvements B
P21 UNC-Asheville $1,750 VWIN Monitoring Sites B
P22 Buncombe Soil and Water
(Fall 1998) 		$12,658 Newfound Creek Watershed B
P23 Land of Sky Regional Council $20,000 Ross Creek Urban Watershed B
P24 Madison County Health Department $16,208 Straightpipe Elimination M
P25 Madison County Solid Waste Department $5,047 Trash Removal Equipment M
P26 RiverLink $10,450 VWIN Continuation H,M
P27 Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society (Spring 1999) $9,500 Beaver Lake Wetland Project B
P28 Quality Forward $10,000 Adopt-A-Stream Expansion B
P29

Madison Co. Tourism & Dev.
(Fall 1999)

 $3,150 VWIN Monitoring Sites M
P30 Haywood Waterways Assn. $6,300 VWIN Monitoring Sites H
P31 Haywood Waterways Assn. (Spring 2000) $10,000 Presentation Equipment H
P32 SW Resource Conservation $12,000 Equipment for Conservation Planning B
P33 Haywood Waterways Assn. (Fall 2000) $5,200 Volunteer
Water Information Network (VWIN) 		H
P34 RiverLink $24,233 Revitalizing the Swannanoa Watershed B
P35 Southeastern Jurisdictional Administrative Council $100,000 Challenge grant for the Lake Restoration Project H
P36 Land of Sky Regional Council $20,000 Urban stream restoration on Ross Creek B
P37 Madison Soil and Water Conservation District $3,600 Volunteer Water Information Network M
P38 Southwestern RC&DSouthwestern RC&D $5,146 River restoration projects H,B,M
P39 UNC Asheville - Environmental Quality Institute (Spring 2001) $2,591 Volunteer Water Information Network B
P40 Madison Soil and Water Conservation District $75,000 Resources Inventory M
P41 Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District $3,600 Madison County VWN M
P42 UNC Asheville Environmental Quality Institute (Fall 2001) $20,000 EQI Improved Sediment Control from Construction Sites B
P43 Southwestern NC Resources and Development Council (Fall 2001) $18,980 Haywood County Water Quality GIS Specialist H
P44 Mountain Valleys RC&D Council $62,000 Buncombe County Ivy River Watershed Resources Inventory B
P45 Southwestern NC Resource and Conservation Council (Spring 2003) $10,857 Haywood County Nutrient Management/Erosion Control Demonstration H
P46 Land-of-Sky Regional Council $15,000 Ross Creek BMP Implementation Phase I B
P47 Clean Water of NC (Fall 2003) $11,000 Stream Monitoring Information Exchange B,H,M
P48 Southeastern Jurisdictional Administrative Council of the United Methodist Church $36,000 Lake Junaluska Wetland Project H
P49 University Botanical Gardens at Asheville, Inc. $15,303 Environmentally Friendly Parking Site B
P50 Land-of-Sky Regional Council
(Spring 2004)		 $5,000 Runoff Public Awareness Campaign B,H,M
P51 Riverlink, Inc. $15,000 Teaching Water Quality Issues B,H,M
P52 Clean Water for NC (Fall 2004) $6,000 Stream Monitoring Information Exchange B,H,M
P53 Madison County
Soil and Water Conservation District		 $11,800 Madison County Volunteer Water Information Network (VWIN) M
P54 Southeastern Jurisdictional Administrative Council of the United Methodist Church $20,000 Wetlands Project Phase 2 with Littoral Shelf H
P55 Clean Water for NC (Spring 2005) $18,000 Stream Monitoring Information Exchange B,H,M
P56 Land-of-Sky
Regional Council 		$28,200 Buncombe–Madison Initiatives of the
French Broad River Buffer Partnership		 B,M
P57 Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy $25,000 Sandymush/Beaverdam Headwaters Protection Initiative B
P58 Buncombe Co. Soil & Water Conservation District (Fall 2005)
 $18,000 Newfound Creek Watershed - Sedimentation Improvements B
P59 NC Cooperative Extension Service of Haywood Co. $15,000 Demonstration Rain Gardens Project H
P60 RiverLink $12,000 Adopt a Stream Program B
P61 Haywood Waterways Assn. $50,000 IPSI Study Update H
P62 Southwestern NC Resource Conservation Dev. Council $20,200 GIS Mapping of Pigeon River Watershed H
EDUCATING ABOUT WATER QUALITY ISSUES
  Organization Grant Project Title County
E1 Mountain Agricultural Center (Spring 96) $5,900 Genetic Origin of Trout H
E2 Conservation Trust (Spring 97) $5,000 Conservation Development H
E3 Haywood Schools Foundation $16,000 Bringing in the Children H
E4 Mountain Aquaculture Center $10,000 Phase II Trout Population H
E5 SW Resource Conservation (Fall 97) $20,000 Mountain Heritage Learning Center H
E6 SWRCDHaywood Waterways $4,066 Erosion Control H
E7 Tuscola High School $14,000 Multimedia Education H
E8 Buncombe County Schools Foundation $13,967 It's Up To Me and You B
E9 Jonathan Valley Elementary School $12,346 Hands-On Science H
E10 Mountain Valleys Resource Conservation $12,450 It's Up To Me and You M
E11 RiverLink $48,944 Mapping Mountain Wetlands H-B
E12 SW Resource Conservation $13,980 Smoky Mtn. Trout Festival H
E13 SW Resource Conservation
(Fall 1998) 		$5,353 Kids in the Creek H
E14 SW Resource Conservation
(Spring 1999)		 $9,700 River Friendly Farmer Program H,M,B
E15 Haywood Waterways Assn. $13,380 Water Quality Education Program H
E16 RiverLink $13,980 Internet Education Project H
E17 SW Resource Conservation $10,424 Water Quality for Summer Youth H
E18 Haywood Waterways Assn. (Spring 2001) $8,740 “Kids in the Creek” program H
E19 Project SOAR $14,442 Haywood County Project Pursuit H
E20 RiverLink $10,000 Riverkeeper position B
E21 Haywood County Schools Foundation (Fall 2001) $23,675 Support our Students &
Streams II		 H
E22 ProjectSOAR (Spring 2002) $9,420 Central Haywood High School water education H
E23 Haywood County Schools Foundation $21,381 Support our Students and Streams H
E24 Buncombe County Soil and Water Conservation District (Fall 2002) $8,900 Newfound Watershed Project B
E25 Southwestern NC Resources and Development Council (Spring 2003) $17,703 Youth Environment Stewardship (Y.E.S.) Summer Day Camp H
E26 RiverLink, Inc $10,000 Clear Water Contractors Program B
E27 Evergreen Community Charter School $5,503 Cold Water Aquaculture Project B
E28 Haywood County Schools Foundation $25,500 Haywood Environmental Initiative H
E29 Buncombe County Soil and Water Conservation District (Spring 2004) $21,500 Environmental Protection Program B,H,M
E30 Haywood County Schools Foundation (Fall 2004) 30,000 Haywood Environmental Initiative H
E31 Bethel Christian Academy
(Spring 2005)		 $15,500 Exploring Natural Habitats of the Pigeon River H
E32 Haywood County Schools Foundation (Fall 2005) 28,800 Haywood Environmental Initiative H
E33 Land of Sky Regional Council
(Spring 2005)		 $20,000 Stormwater Management Education Program H,B,M
E34 RiverLink
(Spring 2005)		 $6,700 Middle School Science Class Volunteers B
STRENGTHENING ORGANIZATIONS
WORKING ON WATER QUALITY
  Organization Grant Project Title County
S1 SWRCD/ Haywood Waterways
(Spring 1997)		 $16,408 Project Coordinator H
S2 SWRCD/ Haywood Waterways
(Spring 1998)		 $18,445 Organization Expansion H
S3 SWRCD/Haywood Waterways (Fall 1998) $13,350 Project Coordinator H
S4 Haywood Waterways Assn. (Fall 1999) $20,000 Operating Support H
S5 Haywood Waterways Assn. (Fall 2000) $27,750 Operating support H
S6 Haywood Waterways Association
(Fall 2001)		 $31,830 HWA Year 2002 Operating and Program Funding H
S7 Haywood Waterways Association
(Fall 2002) 		$32,000 HWA Year 2003 Funding H
S8 Haywood Waterways Association
(Fall 2003) 		$32,000 HWA Programs for 2004 H
S9 Friends of Great Smoky Mountain National Park
(Spring 2004)		 $13,000 Protecting Aquatic Resources from Decline H
S10 Haywood Waterways Association
(Fall 2004)		 $32,000 HWA 2005 Programs H
S11 Western Carolina University $12,000 Pigeon River Fish Habitat & Larval Drift Assessment H
S12 University of Tennessee, Dept. of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries $20,000 Pigeon River Restoration Project: Video Equipment for Educational Outreach and Fish Habitat Analysis H
S13 Haywood Waterways Assn. (Fall 2005) $38,750 HWA 2006 Program H
S14 Southwestern NC Resource Conservation Dev. Council $20,000 Landowner Outreach and Planning in Bethel Community H

The Pigeon River Fund of The Community Foundation
of Western North Carolina
      P.O. Box 1888 Asheville, NC 28802
Phn 828 254-4960     Fax 828 251-2258