There are 3 article(s) tagged McKellar Lake:

• March 2023

  • College students pick up 75,000 pounds of trash from McKellar Lake

    College students from nearly a dozen universities removed 75,000 pounds of trash from McKellar Lake in the past three weeks, intercepting it before it entered the Mississippi River. 

    By Keely Brewer March 24, 2023

• August 2019

  • When a creek becomes a river

    Nonconnah Creek, along with the Wolf River, is one of the two major sources of drainage for the Memphis area, yet many people aren't familiar with it. But understanding Nonconnah and the potential consequences of man-made changes to it, as demonstrated on a terrifying night in 1980, could be important to our future.

    By John Klyce August 06, 2019

• April 2019

  • River turns wheels of industry, stokes city’s economic engine

    The Mississippi River has been lubricating the economic machinery of Memphis since land speculators put down stakes where a high bluff overlooked the muddy terminus of the Wolf River.

    By Wayne Risher April 01, 2019