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Nonconnah's Polluted Water Likely Leaking Into Memphis Aquifer PRINT EDITION JUST $99 PER YEAR Covering local news, politics, and more Covering Memphis Since 1886 Channel 10 Friday nights at 7 MEMPHISDAILYNEWS.COM Wednesday, August 7, 2019 MemphisDailyNews.com Vol. 134 | No. 125 Rack–50¢/Delivery–39¢ Mid-South Transplant Foundation takes message to pews JANE ROBERTS instigating some friendly compe- to sign up at least 10 by Labor Day.” and organ availability is a justice so to speak.” Courtesy of The Daily Memphian tition between African-American At Olivet Fellowship Baptist issue for a community that suffers Probably no one has more skin The reasons are many and congregations, hoping to up the Church, the Rev. Eugene Gibson more genetic disease and gang in the game than Brown Mission- historic. African-Americans, who ante. expected 6-10 parishioners would violence than any ethnic group in ary Baptist Church on Swinnea in the Mid-South are waiting in “The GiveLife10 campaign is sign up last Sunday. “It was awe- the nation. in Southaven. Sunday, the Rev. greater numbers than any other all about encouraging churches to some,” he said. “We had 23 people “If we complain about what is Bartholomew Orr hadn’t been at group for kidneys and livers, are increase the number of registered register. I think we are doing our going on, what is our part of the the pulpit 10 minutes before he underrepresented in organ do- tissue and organ donors,” said part.” solution? One of the ways we can was taking his donor card out of nor registries. This month, Mid- Randa Lipman, manager of com- For Gibson, longtime member fix this is become a donor yourself his wallet. “I’m an organ donor,” South Transplant Foundation is munity outreach. “We want them of the foundation’s board, tissue and have some skin in the game, TRANSPLANT CONTINUED ON P2 the Memphis Aquifer,” said Daniel Larsen, depart- ment chair. Memphis is known for its excellent quality of wa- Nonconnah’s polluted water likely ter, which is underground in the Memphis Aquifer. “The Memphis Aquifer provides us with really good water,” said Ryan Parish, a University of Mem- phis professor and president of the Nonconnah leaking into Memphis aquifer Creek Conservancy. “We still have to treat it, of course. You can’t just drink it right out of the ground, but it’s a great water source.” Over most of the aquifer is a protective layer of clay, which keeps it from contaminants above ground. “It kind of keeps the nasty water from the surface from getting into it,” Parish said. However, there are areas where this protective clay is missing, and this can open a window for surface water. “Water can move freely near the surface to the Memphis aquifer,” Larsen said. “If we have a dis- charge of a lot of water through the creeks, that can then move down by the natural gradient into the underlying Memphis Aquifer.” And with Nonconnah Creek, this happens quite often. Generally, when a southern stream flows from its headwaters to where it empties, it gains water because smaller tributaries flow into it. However, Nonconnah Creek doesn’t gain water, according to Larsen. “They don’t because they leak their water into the subsurface,” he said. “It goes up beneath into underlying sands and gravels and then into the un- derlying Memphis sand.” In many places, the bed of Nonconnah Creek is sand and gravel, through which the water can easily move. If it can, water moves from a high-energy po- sition to a low-energy position, and the energy level Fishermen angle along the banks of Nonconnah Creek next to the Valero oil refinery in South Memphis close to where Nonconnah of water underneath the ground is typically lower. empties into McKellar Lake on August 3, 2019. (Jim Weber/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) “If you look at the water level in a well, it’s lower than the level in the stream,” Larsen said. JOHN KLYCE of our drinking water in two Memphis from two different studies that the water Because of this, water from the creek will seep Courtesy of The Daily Memphian Light, Gas and Water Division well fields from Nonconnah Creek is likely infiltrat- downward. It’s a good thing the water we drink comes from the heavily polluted Non- ing and entering the Memphis Aquifer “If there’s an opportunity for it to move in is filtrated. According to a study done connah Creek, due to breaches in the either close to Nonconnah Creek or through that sand bed, and move into that shallow by the Center for Applied Earth Sci- Memphis aquifer. flowing sort of under the subsurface ence and Engineering Research, 10-23% “We have pretty definitive evidence to a location flowing downward into NONCONNAH CONTINUED ON P3 INSIDE Columns ............................ 3 memphisdailynews.com chandlerreports.com Public Records ................ 4 ©2019 The Daily News Publishing Company A division of The Daily News Publishing Company Memphis, Tennessee The standard for premium real estate Established 1886 • 134th year information since 1968 Public Notices ............... 10 Call 901.523.1561 to subscribe Call 901.458.6419 for more information Page 2 MemphisDailyNews.com Wednesday, August 7, 2019 Memphis couple open Caribbean restaurant, Caribbean Flayvahz, in Hickory Hill ELLE PERRY Courtesy of The Daily Memphian Coleman. A Queens, New York, native and Or- Caribbean Flayvahz serves oxtails ange Mound native, both graduates of daily. It also serves dishes including cur- LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, ry chicken (pulled off the bone), steamed have opened a Caribbean restaurant in red snapper, honey jerk shrimp, beef or Hickory Hill. chicken patty, codfish cakes, coco bread Louis and Carla Faulkner opened Ca- and curry goat. ribbean Flayvahz earlier this year at 3650 The couple looked at locations in Ger- Ridgeway Road. Carla, 28, studied educa- mantown and Southaven, but while work- tion at LeMoyne-Owen; Louis, 27, studied ing at Power Center Academy, Carla saw a sociology. “for lease” sign at 3650 Ridgeway. Carla always wanted to opened a res- “This is where God led us,” Louis said. taurant. Her master’s in business admin- People find the restaurant on Google, istration from Ashford University was Yelp, Travel Advisor, Facebook and Ins- related to opening a restaurant, and its tagram. Guests have come from far away theme comes from her heritage. as Hernando, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Carla’s father is from St. Kitts, one of Others have stopped in while traveling the two Caribbean islands that make up across the state. the dual-island country of St. Kitts and Louis said that people of Cuban, Jamai- Nevis. can and Haitian descent are among those Caribbean Flayvahz owner Louis Faulkner takes customers’ orders at the restaurant he and “He taught me about Caribbean food, who have patronized Caribbean Flayvahz. his wife, Carla, own in Hickory Hill. (Mark Weber/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) music and culture,” she said. The restaurant’s hours are 11 a.m. “I fell in love with my Caribbean side to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and at a very young age. It was so rich of love, of college, I wanted to share it with oth- Caribbean Flayvahz was born.” noon to 8 p.m. on Sundays. It is closed on laughter and great music. Once I got out ers and Memphis became that city where The restaurant employs chef Robert Monday. TRANSPLANT CONTINUED FROM P1 and application clipboard in hand Sunday morning. “I’m doing it again today just to he said, tapping the card. “Someone will be be sure,” she said with a laugh that echoed blessed with these beautiful brown eyes. I through Brown’s cavernous welcome area. won’t be needing them anymore when I’m “There’s all kinds of rumors about them gone.” taking organs early if you have a certain If the congregation of more than 2,000 blood type,” she said. “People grew up hear- needed any more words from the pulpit on ing it.” If Gibson had been at Brown on Sun- the matter, Orr had a few. “It doesn’t cost day instead of his own church, he probably you anything. They’re not going to take would have nodded at the size of the task. them before you leave.” Then the video, “I see the education the foundation puts “Be a Blessing,” produced by the founda- forth to let African-Americans, as well as tion, popped up on giant screens around Europeans, Latinos and Asians, know they the sanctuary. It features eight prominent, will be treated fairly,” Gibson said. “Nothing local African-American clergy, including happens medically to hasten their demise Orr. The message: “You can be the change to procure their organs.” for someone else.” It’s the myth he hears most often. Gib- An hour later, 26 parishioners had son doesn’t shrug the people off as mis- registered in the welcome center outside informed or out-of-touch. He says simply, the massive sanctuary. “That’s only the 11 “African-American people have had histori- o’clock service. There are three other ser- cal run-ins with the medical community The Mid-South Transplant Foundation set up a table after worship service at Brown vices we were at. I’m sure we got a lot more,” over the years.” He does not mention the Missionary Baptist Church on August 4, 2019. (Brandon Dill/Special to The Daily Memphian) said Tamara Pate, community relations Tuskegee syphilis experiments, which ran coordinator for the Mid-South Transplant more than four decades, ending in 1972, or Gibson said. Olivet Fellowship also has the to make a difference.“You can give a kidney Foundation.
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