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Back in the Hometown Bill Carter of Elkin surveys stream restoration including terraced banks above Carter Falls. They call the Mississippi River muddy. But folks out in the Midwest haven’t seen a muddy river until they have seen Big Elkin Creek after a big rain. Brown creek water that looks like a big flow of Yoo-hoo not only is unsightly here in the hometown but also complicates the processing of clean drinking water for Elkin. The town draws its water from the Big Elkin at its treatment plant along Pleasant Hill Road. A million-dollar-plus effort to improve the creek and reduce its flow ...

By Kitsey Burns Harrison kburns@yadkinripple.com A group of hikers enjoy a guided walk on the Carter Falls Powerhouse loop trail during NC Trail Days. Stephen Harris shows a young hiker and his family one of the metal bands that once surrounded the water flume that powered the Carter Falls power plant. Stephen Harris points out the power pole that took electricity from the Carter Falls powerhouse to Elkin to a group of hikers during NC Trail Days. The year was 1915. That marked the first hydro-electric power plant at Carter Falls which brought electricity to the town of Elkin.

A stream restoration project is under way on a section of creek above Carter Falls. A stream restoration project near Carter Falls began in late March with aid received due to damage from two major hurricanes in 2018. Resource Institute, a nonprofit headquartered in Winston-Salem which helps restore America’s streams, rivers and wetlands, is providing services and assistance to Surry County to help with the restoration project on properties above Carter Falls. Surry County received $3 million through the NC Department of Environmental Quality Division of Water Resources to address damages r...