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Join CRBI this Friday, Jan. 1, at 1 p.m. for an exploration of the Burwell Creek wetlands and floodplain, some 60-acres of city-owned property that is slated for development into a regional shopping center. Recent high water has filled the proposed building site with 1 to 12 feet for water, and the best way to explore it now is via canoe or kayak. When you've paddled this land, you'll ask yourself: "who in their right mind would build a shopping center on this property?" This trip is free and open to the public. To reserve a canoe or kayak, e-mail Joe Cook at jcook@coosa.org Meet at the Burwell Creek parking area for Ridge Ferry Park at the intersection of Turner McCall Blvd. and Riverside Parkway (behind Starbuck's).
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Virtually all of the Burwell Creek Natural Area is flooded. Today would have been a great day to film it from a kayak, and yet I, exercising a bit too much caution, foolishly discouraged that. Now that I’ve gotten out and seen it for myself, I repent.
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Jim Ware's Post:
"Today I got the full scope of Burwell Creek Wetlands importance... as pretty as it may be down in there, regardless of the obvious educational or recreational uses...it is a tool and its main use is and should be to hold flood waters. " - Jim Ware
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