Clark County Chapter of Friends of the Black River Close to Completing Sign Project

Monday, May 10th, 2021 -- 11:00 AM

The Clark County Chapter of the Friends of the Black River is getting close to finalizing their sign project.

Back in March, I spoke with Adam Marcineak, the founder of the Clark County Chapter, and he explained the project in more detail.

“The Friends of the Black River has undertaken a sign project for Clark County.  And what we are providing is an aluminum satellite image sign of the river to go in the parking lots at the more improved landing sites throughout the county."

"And the signs will provide information regarding distances and travel times on the river, different information on where you can obtain flow rate information, where you might find the rapids and what the classification of those rapids are to give people that heads up of what they’re getting into before they get on the river, and some other pertinent information associated with kayaking and canoeing will also be available on those maps.”

“The maps project itself started as a couple signs in Neillsville that the county had slotted in their future plans that we adopted from them and have grown it into the project that we’re doing with these satellite signs at approximately 25 locations in Clark County.”

“Also involved in the sign project, most of the locations will get a trash bag dispenser and brochure holder with more information about the river on the brochure and then some information about the Friends of the Black River and what we are all about.”

Adam stated that not all of them will be on the Black River.

“Not all of them are on the Black River.  There’s approximately 20 that will be going on the river and Lake Arbutus.  But we’ve also been working on some sign projects for some of the navigable creeks in the county, which would include Wedges Creek.  And then the east fork of the Black River, we also have several signs for those creeks as well that we included in this project.”

The project was funded with a combination of what is in the group’s budget, grants and donations.

“We initially had about an $800 budget that we took out of one of the grants that we first got to get our organization up and running.  That grant that we asked for had that amount in it for this project."

"And since the inception, the growth of the project has required more funds to obtain, but we have gotten some donations from local businesses for nuts and bolts and things of that nature to help keep the cost down, but we’re in the process of writing another grant to round out the project.”

The sign picuted with this story is how all the signs will look.

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