Swannanoa River

... who was risen from the dead, and that's the story o- of the tangerine darter.

The tangerine darter was a species that was extirpated from the Swananoa River, and it hadn't been there for 100 years.

So we got to be there with the professor from Lees-McRae College, along with one of the leading s- uh, the leading fish biologists for the state of North Carolina, as we took it from one river, I think it was the French River-

Mm-hmm

... and then we reintroduced it into the Swananoa River to...

You can hear my Massachusetts-

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And that's the story of the tangerine daughter.

The tangerine daughter was a species that was extirpated from the Swannanoa River.

and it hadn't been there for a hundred years.

So we got to be there with the professor from Lees-McCrae College, along with one of the leading fish biologists for the state of North Carolina, as we took it from one river, I think it was the French River, and then we reintroduced it into the Swannanoa River to, you can hear my Massachusetts speak in that river.

And where we basically got to be a part of this amazing restoration process.

And that really is the spirit of this series.

The historic village of But Chimney Rock is just gone, as are many other small communities across the region.

Portions of downtown Asheville were all but submerged under the overflowing Swannanoa River.

Across the ridge in Irwin, Tennessee, 11 factory workers were swept away by the raging waters of the Nolichucky River, and at least four are confirmed dead.

They are just a small fraction of the total number of lives lost to a storm which has now dumped between 10 and 30 inches of rain on essentially every county across the North Carolina-Tennessee border.

Read more in the Citizen Times.

Nearly two years after Helene, Asheville is planning a resilient rebuild of Azalea Road along the Swannanoa River.

City Council was expected to consider recovery funding at their meeting Tuesday, including money for temporary gaseous creek bridge.

Plans call for a permanent bridge with bike lanes while keeping the temporary crossing as an emergency route.