Hello all,

I am a streamkeeper and have way too many questions. Questions about needed changes.

#1 My stream should be redone. There is a great public access in Pembroke VA that needs to be added and even options for combining these floats differently. How do I do that??

#2 and simular, How do I break up large lengths of rivers into nice day trips.

#3 Adding new reaches. How much information do I need before starting a new reach?

#4 I am going to get members of my float club to consider becoming steamkeepers at my next meeting on September 27th. Any suggestions for possibly questions, what is a streamkeeper? what exactly do they do? ect.

Any help on any of these questions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

David Shelton

Sure. I can answer some of these. Matt can answer others.

1. If you are a streamteam member then you will have an Administrator -> Stream Team Menu, it will take you to a screen with a "my sections" link, under that are your edit options. You can also, optionally navigate to the stream page and see the operations on the right in a window if you are listed as the stream team contact for that stream and you are logged in.

2. If you want to make novel stream combination from an existing stream and the original stream is the dominate section, I would modify the put-in and take-out description. If you want to suggest that a shorter section is the dominate section then rename your long section to the new short section name and submit the other short sections as new rivers (by, at a minimum emailing or messaging a state or regional streamkeeper with the new section names).

3. Name and description I think are minimal.

4. Look under "Stream Team" in the River Info Menu.

Thanks for your fast reply. Who is the state or reginal streemkeeper for virginia?

The reach I have taken at this point is on the New River from Eggleston to Ripplemeade. The next section down stream is Ripplemeade to Pearisburg, but actually Bluff City. I believe that these two reaches were set up like this due to H. Roger Corbett's book, Virginia Whitewater. This is an excellent book but a little outdated. I feel that these two reaches should really be three, with notes that the center section could be included with either run, but most likely included with the Ripplemeade to Bluff City run due to the ease of shuttle.

The river that I was refering to about chopping it up into smaller floats was the Jackson River. There are only 2 reaches listed at this time. I do not know much about the reach above Lake Moomaw, but paddle the section below Lake Moomaw and the Gathright dam often. This reach is over 40 miles long and needs to be split up. There is a mandatory take out at the Westvaco plant in Covington. H. Roger Corbett stated that there is a 2 step dam at Westvaco that is "designed to ensure you will be drowned".

Most of the streams and rivers I have a lot of info on are not going to be for the "serious" whitewater paddler, but some of the local creeks are. Check out Little Stoney Creek in Giles county. It has a 60 plus foot waterfall and a easy hike in for an open boater to just "watch". My friends and I paddle to have a good time, socialize, some fish, some paddle for the exercise, for me it is to preserve what little sanity I have left, that's why I paddle about 3 out of 4 weekends a month, even if for just one day.


This web site is changing alot right now and I have been following these forums and they answer alot of my questions. Thanks alot for your help, I just see a bunch of work that needs to be done to the streams in my area. Just wind me up and point me in the right direction.

David

A list is located at

[www.americanwhitewater.org]

and

[www.americanwhitewater.org]