MURP Students Contribute to 16 Blocks Magazine

VT MURP Students Leslie Tate and Jed Grubbs' article on the Stroubles Creek Watershed was recently published in the local magazine 16 Blocks.

The creek as it runs behind the office at Old Town Hall

STROUBLES CREEK

Disrepair

If not for Stroubles, the Town of Blacksburg would not exist. At least not where it is today. Freshwater springs exist on both the east and west corner of the town’s 16 blocks and the community was purposefully positioned between these springs. The branches of these springs, along with a third branch, meet to become Stroubles Creek, which had provided Blacksburg with drinking water for over 150 years until health concerns forced us to draw downstream from the New River. Today, however, a visitor strolling through town is likely unaware that moving waters are buried beneath the concrete. Yet they continue to flow, and while we may have put Stroubles out of sight and out of mind, it has not ceased to assert its influence or wane in its importance.

~ Access the remainder of the article here.