The Upper Watauga Riverkeeper was founded in 2007, and serves as the primary watchdog and spokesperson for the upper Elk and Watauga Rivers, which run from their headwaters on Grandfather mountain and the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina to the dam at foot of Watauga Lake in east Tennessee.
The program’s mission is to protect and restore the communities, water quality, and ecological health of the watershed.
The Upper Watauga Riverkeeper program is dedicated to preserving and protecting YOUR WATER from polluters. It reflects the public’s right to clean water and healthy fisheries and serves the communities of Banner Elk, Boone, Blowing Rock, Valle Crucis and Watauga Lake.
The Upper Watauga Riverkeeper is a program of Appalachian Voices, which now proudly advocates for environmental protection of air, forests, water and the Appalachian mountains.
To report water pollution anywhere in the Watauga or Elk River watersheds, call our toll-free water pollution hotline: 1-877-277-8642 or contact the Riverkeeper at donna@appvoices.org
Upper Watauga Riverkeeper