WRCB Channel 3 Chattanooga News, Weather | Whitewater rafting resumes on Ocoee
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Associated Press - March 23, 2009 11:54 AM ET
DUCKTOWN, Tenn. (AP) - The water is safe and outfitters are expecting a banner year for whitewater sports on the Ocoee River.
Tennessee environmental regulators have issued an all-clear after the Tennessee Valley Authority allowed a large sediment slide from a hydroelectric dam in January that killed fish and coated the riverbank.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that water flows resumed last weekend on the middle Ocoee and will continue each weekend until May 1. After that, water runs five days a week for rafting until September.
Water will run on the upper Ocoee on weekends from mid-May to mid-September.
Outfitters say the river is back to its normal rocks, rapids and rafting.
Information from: Chattanooga Times Free Press, http://www.timesfreepress.com
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