The Transformer OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF CANOOCHEE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
June 2024
Canoochee EMC Foundation Awards Grant to Ogeechee Riverkeeper
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The following article was written and submitted by Meaghan Gerard, Ogeechee Riverkeeper Communications and Administrative Director.
you feel like you’re out in geechee Riverkeeper the wild. It makes it even (ORK) is pleased more important to protect to receive a grant from it, because these things Canoochee EMC to support its are becoming rarer.” comprehensive water quality The grant from monitoring program. ORK’s Canoochee EMC will fund mission is to protect, preserve equipment and supplies and improve the water quality to measure water temperin the Ogeechee River basin, ature, dissolved oxygen, which includes more than pH and specific con5,500 square miles across 21 ductance to monitor the Georgia counties. ORK also health of our waterways, offers education opportuniincluding the Canoochee ties, hosts events and particiRiver. pates in coalitions to promote All of the data colclean water efforts in the lected from ORK’s samregion. pling is publicly available Despite a largely rural online at www.knowyourlandscape, this region of river.com, a website where Georgia is experiencing citizens can get informarapid increased development tion on the water quality pressure from population Canoochee EMC Member Services Manager Kyle Durrence in their area. Furthermore, growth, water withdrawals (left) presents a check to Ogeechee Riverkeeper Executive ORK shares monitoring and wastewater discharges. Director Damon Mullis. results with stakeholders, Many pressures are causing agencies, media and municipalities as needed. dramatic changes in water quality and quantity, threatening ORK also offers the annual Canoochee Paddle Race, serious ecological decline by shifting wildlife and fisheries citizen science programs, local ordinance updates, an populations. annual photography contest, environmental blog posts, “When you’re out on the river, you feel enveloped in organized cleanups and more. To learn more, visit www. wildness,” says Damon Mullis, Ogeechee Riverkeeper and ogeecheeriverkeeper.org. Executive Director. “It’s hard to find those places that make
Touchstone Energy Senior Citizen of the Month Congratulations to Chesley Pitts of Ellabell for being selected as the June 2024 Touchstone Energy Senior Citizen of the Month.
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