Deep River Rail Trail Receives Clean Water Grant for Conservation Easement
Franklinville’s greenway will soon be a little greener thanks to a $101,000 grant to purchase a conservation easement on 38 acres of land, mostly between the three-quarter-mile-long trail and the Deep River. The project was one of five in the eastern Piedmont that will receive funding through the state Clean Water Management Trust Fund (CWMTF). In August, town board members approved a resolution to support submission of an application by Randolph County for a U.S. Department of Transportation planning grant to study extending a 3/4-mile long section of the Deep River Rail-Trail west to the Guilford County line. The planning grant would provide planning, outreach and design for a 17-mile section of trail — along the abandoned railbed of the Atlantic & Yadkin Railroad — through the Cedar Falls community to Providence Grove High School and the county line. For more on the Deep River Rail Trail see the October 12th Courier Tribune article.
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