Roaring River Chapter

The Roaring River Chapter draws members from Putnam, Jackson, and Overton counties on the Highland Rim of the Cumberland Plateau. We meet monthly on the third Monday at 7:00 p.m., usually at the Putnam County Library in the upstairs meeting room. (Traditionally our December gathering is a fund-raising holiday party rather than a meeting.)

Most meetings have a guest speaker or other program on a local or state environmental issue. We have learned about modern, environmentally friendly systems for handling stormwater and reducing runoff and flooding, how to evaluate the claims that more roads are needed, how the state legislature works, the impacts of reducing TennCare, the problems of voting suppression, the local effects of climate change and ways to reduce its impacts, how the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation permitting processes work, how citizens can contest permits which would allow our wetlands and waterways to be polluted and destroyed, and how to affect TDOT’s Long Range Plans.