Save Jordan Lake

What's New

Rules to protect Jordan Lake cleared a major hurdle on May 8 when officials with the Enviornmental Management Commission voted to approve them unanimously.

Environment North Carolina members, staff and volunteers had submitted more than 5,000 comments in favor of strong plan to restore and protect the Triangle reservoir. Read the news release.

The plan will face review by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2009.  

How You Can Help

Send an email to your legislators in support of protecting and restoring Jordan Lake.

Brief Summary

North Carolina is home to beautiful rivers, lakes, and streams. These waters are where we go for a summer afternoon hike, where we fish, where go for a boat ride, where we get our drinking water. These are the waters that we want to pass on to future generations.

But many of the lakes we love are threatened. Twenty years ago, just over 2 million acres of North Carolina’s land was developed. Today, that number has nearly doubled, much of it close to our lakes. More paved surfaces carry polluted runoff (oil, dirt, fertilizer, and other pollutants ) straight into our waterways. And more development means more sewage, increasing pollution into our rivers, lakes and streams.

Now, with development happening more rapidly, and in some cases more irresponsibly, than anyone could have predicted, we need to protect our lakes for future generations.

Jordan Lake, Falls Lake, and Lake Rhodhiss are just a few examples of how uncontrolled development has meant more pollution in our waters. Algae blooms ruin our lakes for swimming and fishing and make our drinking water smell and taste bad, increasing the costs of treatment.

Thanks in part to the 2005 Environment North Carolina-baced Clean Lakes bill, officials are moving forward to protect the first of these lakes-- Jordan Lake-- this spring.  A strong protection plan for Jordan Lake will not only safeguard a treasured Triangle resource; it will also set the stage for how other lakes across the state are restored and preserved. More.