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Blythe Ferry Bat Cave

Coal Creek Iron Works returned to the TVA cave at Blythe Ferry to reinforce the gate entrance with additional steel, helping protect the cave’s bat habitat from unauthorized entry.

We took a day this past week to go down to Birchwood, TN, just outside of Dayton to a TVA Cave at Blythe Ferry on the Tennessee River. We added some steel to the bottom side of a gate entrance to prevent people from entering the cave to protect the bats. We built the original fence around most of the cave in 2015 and then added a little more onto the fence in 2018. This time, the task at hand was small and didn’t require much steel so it felt like a field trip of getting to do something different.

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