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About Us < Conservation Legacy < Fight to Save the Alcovy River
During the 1960’s, the Soil Conservation Service, USDA, provided funding under Public Law 566 to channelize the streams of our nation as a flood control measure. When the SCS announced its plan to channelize the Alcovy River in Newton County, Georgia, the Georgia Wildlife Federation’s membership led the fight to stop the proposed dredging.
This action literally stopped the SCS channelization programs nationwide, thus saving hundreds of miles of natural stream beds, swamps, and river bottom forests from destruction. Some time after the fight over the Alcovy, Public Law 566 funding was deauthorized by the U.S. Congress.
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