Ogeechee Riverkeeper, Georgia Southern graduate student team up for study on river

OGEECHEE RIVER, Ga. (WTOC) – A researcher from Georgia Southern will staff with Ogeechee Riverkeeper to measure the surroundings in and alongside the a part of the river in our neighborhood.

She’ll take a look at two explicit spots alongside the river.

This analysis comes as one firm will likely be closing their plant alongside the river in Screven County, and one other firm begins to construct their plant alongside the river in Bryan County.

The river touches 15 counties because it flows to the Georgia coast. Georgia Southern College graduate scholar Molly McKeon will research our native a part of it by means of a fellowship with the Ogeechee Riverkeeper.

The research will examine the water close to the soon-to-be closed Milliken plant and water close to the deliberate Hyundai electrical automobile plant close to Black Creek.

“These two factors appear to make a fantastic space that we ought to be finding out as we watch the closure of 1 and the development of one other,” mentioned McKeon.

The higher portion of the river noticed loads of research greater than a decade in the past when hundreds of fish died in water downstream from the plant in Screven County underneath completely different possession.

This analysis will doc the state of this a part of the river now but in addition the state of the river downstream earlier than any attainable industrial impression.

“I imagine it’s essential for this to be dropped at consideration so we are able to bear in mind what occurred previously and it’s not cyclical and doesn’t repeat itself.”

They’ll start their analysis in January.

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