You may have noticed that something is happening to Beaver Creek at the Halls Community Park behind the Food City on Maynardville Pike.  Knox County Stormwater Management along with the Beaver Creek Task Force and the University of Tennessee Water Resources Research Center are completing a stream rehabilitation, habitat enhancement and bank stabilization project along a roughly 800 foot stretch of the creek that has been straightened and is now extremely incised and, is quite frankly, a very unhealthy and unsightly section of Beaver Creek...more>>

 For more detailed information please click on the following reference documents:

• A modeling approach to Restoring Pool-Riffle Structure in an Incised Straightened Channel of an Urban Stream: 
  This paper will better explain the project.
  
  
• A modeling approach to Restoring Pool-Riffle Structure in an Incised Straightened Channel of an Urban Stream: 
  This PDF a PowerPoint presentation provides great visuals to enhance your knowledge of the paper.
  
  
• Beaver Creek Stream Rehabilitation Project: 
  This drawing illustrated the final plan for the project.