DVIDS - News - Cumberland River Aquatic Center flexes its mussels with Corps mitigation dollars
7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 22, 2021) – It took 12 years, but a $750,000 mitigation effort culminated in late 2020 that helped the Cumberland River Aquatic Center to propagate mussels and other aquatic species. Chip Hall, biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Project Planning Branch, explained that when the district lowered Lake Cumberland in Kentucky in 2008 to relieve pressure on Wolf Creek Dam, an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to mitigate environmental impacts resulted in mitigation dollars being committed to the aquatic c...
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