Elizabethton City Council

Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Director Mike Mains discusses Surf Betsy plans with City Council on Thursday night.

 By John Thompson Elizabethton Bureau Chief jthompson@johnsoncitypress.com

ELIZABETHTON — The Elizabethton City Council took a step forward Thursday in plans to develop the city’s rivers for recreation.

By a unanimous vote, the council agreed to hire the Colorado firm of River Restorations to move forward with studies on the future recreational development of the city’s two rivers and whether the focus should be on the Watauga, the Doe, or a combination of the two rivers.

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John Thompson covers Carter and Johnson counties for the Johnson City Press since 1998. He grew up in Washington County and graduated from University High and East Tennessee State University

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