Daylighting a long forgotten creek in Murfreesboro

Feb 07, 2017 at 05:03 pm by bryan


The daylighting of Town Creek in Murfreesboro is underway. Town Creek was put underground over 50 years ago and runs between Cannonsburgh and the Murfree Spring Wetland area behind McDonalds on Broad Street.

Town Creek currently flows in underground concrete culverts and a series of corrugated metal pipes from Murfree Springs to Cannonsburgh Village before emptying into Lytle Creek. Town Creek was placed in culverts as part of development and redevelopment projects in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The project to daylight the creek will return it to a more natural state.

Assistant City Manager Jennifer Moody stated...

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