Office of Planning, Environment, & Realty (HEP)
Planning • Environment • Real Estate
Upstream and downstream of Crooked Creek Bridge, on Ferrell Bridge Road in Franklin County, North Carolina, beds of federally-listed as endangered dwarf-wedge mussels were undisturbed during and after bridge replacement. North Carolina Department of Transportation workers removed the bridge in sections to keep debris out of the water. At the end of each day's construction, they spread filter fabric over the fill dirt of the bridge approach roads, to control erosion and keep sediment from washing into the creek and onto the mussel beds. The simple technique worked, and the mussels are still there.
--Apr 25, 2003
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| Photo by John Alderman |
| Dwarf wedge mussel |
