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Water Resources Grant will Create Three Wetlands on Campus

This stormwater area below the ATM on the Asheville campus will be enhanced through a grant from the N.C. Division of Water Resources.

A-B Tech received a $62,500 grant from the N.C. Division of Water Resources to create and enhance three storm-water wetlands on the Asheville campus. The terms of the grant require the college to provide a match of $11,600. Students will provide about half of the work needed.

The three areas targeted are a large one below the ATM near Victoria Road, a medium one between Smith-McDowell and Hemlock, and a small one below the tiered parking near Sunnicrest.

Students in Surveying have collected information about the areas on campus and a landscape architecture class will provide layout and design contributions. Carpentry students will construct benches and signage and biology classes will assist with removal of undesirable plants, planting of desirable ones, and weeding and monitoring. Design work will be done in the spring, and earth-moving activities will be completed over the summer.

For more information about the grant or to volunteer for the project, contact Scott Jackson, Biology Instructor, at 254-1921, Ext. 235 or by e-mail at sjackson@abtech.edu.

Surveying Program   Carpentry Program   Biology Department

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