Enterprise’s Park Avenue project gets $10,000 boost

Michelle Mann/mmann@eprisenow.com
The Park Avenue stabilization project got a $10,000 boost Wednesday to help combat eroding stream banks on a tributary of Blanket Creek. On hand for the presentation were, from left, Assistant Public Works Director Donald Grantham, Public Works Director Jimmy Kilgore, Enterprise Mayor Kenneth Boswell, State Sen. Jimmy Holley, State Rep.Terry Spicer and Watershed Management Authority Board of Directors Member Dr. Bruce Donaldson.

The Park Avenue stream stabilization project got a $10,000 boost Wednesday to help combat eroding banks on a tributary of Blanket Creek in Enterprise.
The funds were provided by the Choctawhatchee, Pea and Yellow Rivers Watershed Management Authority, a state agency charged with the responsibility of protecting more than 2.3 million acres of watersheds in 10 southeast Alabama counties. A check was presented to the city by state Sen. Jimmy Holley and state Rep. Terry Spicer.
Representing Coffee County on the watershed management authority board was Dr. Bruce Donaldson.
“Eroding stream banks on a tributary of Blanket Creek were threatening property and residences on Park Avenue,” Boswell said in thanking Donaldson for the authority’s assistance with the project.
“This is the third phase of the project which began in 2006,” Boswell said. “The existing stream bed, extending southwest from the bridge at Glenn Street, has been cleared of debris,” he added. “Reshaping of the stream bed and placement of sod along the top of the banks helped in the stabilization.”