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Water Transfers to Get Harder
- Charlotte Observer (new window)
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9/5/2007 |
| N.C. approval to pipe water from one river basin to another, which ignited an ongoing water war in the Charlotte region, will be harder to win under a new law that went into effect last week. | |
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Hearing draws ideas on permit rules
- Washington Daily News (new window)
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9/24/2007 |
| Proposed changes to the state’s stormwater-permit rules drew a passionate crowd to a public hearing in Washington Tuesday night, as supporters of new regulations called them necessary protectors and opponents called them ignorant of “people quality.” | |
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Toll of Mills River fish kill unknown
- Times-News (new window)
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8/8/2007 |
| MILLS RIVER -- The extent of a July fish kill in the river that provides drinking water for most residents may never be known because state officials didn't count the dead fish. Meanwhile, a farmer growing tomatoes in a field where state officials found a fungicide in a rain puddle said he doesn't think his operation caused the contamination. | |
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Fungicide found in river and city water
- Hendersonville Times-News (new window)
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8/7/2007 |
| MILLS RIVER -- Test results confirmed an agricultural fungicide was present in the Mills River on July 27, the day neighbors along the Henderson County stream found fish floating belly up. | |
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Banks Channel waters often contaminated
- Star News (new window)
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8/3/2007 |
| Wrightsville Beach - Leila Garriss, of Wilmington, knows firsthand what can happen when someone swims in water with high levels of bacteria. Last summer, her son Cole came down with a fever and gastrointestinal problems after taking a dip in Wrightsville Beach's Banks Channel south of the Blockade Runner Beach Resort Hotel. | |
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LTLT to protect more of the Little Tennessee
- Smoky Mountain News (new window)
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8/15/2007 |
| A conservation agreement between a private landowner and the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee has protected close to a half mile of Little Tennessee River frontage in northern Macon County. | |
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Creek's waters may face murky future
- The Charlotte Obsrever (new window)
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8/12/2007 |
| A Florida developer wants to build 225 houses along clear, frothy Wilson Creek, one of only four N.C. federally designated Wild and Scenic rivers. | |
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Take more care with Mills River
- Hendersonville Times-News (new window)
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8/1/2007 |
| The Mills River is too important to this county to allow it to be polluted. That's why state and federal officials investigating last week's fish kill on the river should leave no stone unturned in their attempt to find out who is responsible. And once they do, the officials ought to come down hard on the polluter. | |
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PWC water is only fix for benzene
- The Fayetteville Obsrever (new window)
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8/1/2007 |
| Installing public water lines is the only solution to underground benzene contamination near homes off Rim Road, state environmental officials said Tuesday. Local officials acknowledge the seriousness of the public health problem, but they say it could take as long as a year before the residents in the West Fayetteville neighborhood get hooked up to Public Works Commission water lines. | |
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Dole Offers Bill to Limit Chemical Found in Camp Lejeune Water
- http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/1658836/ (new window)
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8/1/2007 |
| RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole introduced a bill Wednesday that would require federal regulators to limit public exposure to drinking water polluted by trichloroethylene, which has been linked to various forms of cancer. | |
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Forest Service faces water quality suit
- Asheville Citizen-Times (new window)
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7/9/2007 |
| MURPHY — Environmental advocacy groups are planning to sue the U.S. Forest Service, alleging environmental violations have caused water pollution and threatened a native trout species in the Tellico watershed north of Murphy. | |
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Too Close for Comfort
- News & Record (new window)
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7/9/2006 |
| he pitched debate over a long-standing congressional moratorium against offshore drilling for natural gas and oil reserves seems to crest and dip with the spiraling price of gasoline. In an age of $3-a-gallon fill-ups, small wonder it's high tide again. | |
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Fest's ecological efforts go beyond Eno
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/5/2007 |
| DURHAM - The annual party that celebrates one of the cleanest and prettiest rivers in the Piedmont just keeps getting greener. | |
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Editorial: Path to Cleaner Waters
- The News and Observer (new window)
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7/5/2006 |
| Raleigh and Durham residents shell out a little money each month to their municipal governments to help ensure that rainwater doesn't wash directly into area rivers and lakes. What washes from roadways, parking lots and even lawns can be pretty nasty stuff -- oil, gasoline, heavy metals, fertilizer, animal waste. | |
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Jordan Lake hearings planned
- The Herald Sun (new window)
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7/4/2007 |
| RALEIGH -- Three hearings are scheduled this month to collect public comments on the proposed water supply nutrient strategy for communities in the Jordan Lake watershed. | |
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Cape Fear samples yield unsafe levels of beach bacteria
- Wilmington Star-News (new window)
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7/27/2007 |
| Castle Hayne - The sign at the 11-acre park warns visitors that they swim in the Northeast Cape Fear River at their own risk because of currents, sharp drop-offs and the lack of lifeguards. | |
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Bill bans new hog waste lagoons
- The Fayetteville Obsrever (new window)
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7/26/2007 |
| RALEIGH — New hog waste lagoons will be permanently banned in North Carolina, and enterprising hog farmers may receive financial incentives if they try new disposal technologies. | |
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Pollution cleanup bill won't get a vote this session
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/26/2006 |
| An industry group representing manufacturers dropped its bid Tuesday to get lawmakers to relax standards for cleanup of polluted groundwater at industrial sites, but promised to push the issue next session. | |
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Cary has 'weird' water mix-up
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/25/2007 |
| For nearly five months, the Jain family home in Cary has been connected to the town's reclaimed-water system. That is the treated wastewater the town considers clean enough for suburban lawns but not good enough to drink. | |
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Hog Lagoon Phase-out Nearing Final North Carolina Approval
- WRAL (new window)
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7/24/2007 |
| RALEIGH, N.C. — The General Assembly neared final approval Monday night of a phase-out of waste lagoons used by hog farmers, replacing them with more environmentally friendly systems paid for in part by taxpayer-funded grants. | |
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Clean Water fund works to protect state water
- The Chapel Hill News (new window)
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7/24/2007 |
| The Clean Water Management Trust Fund is a non-regulatory state agency created by the North Carolina General Assembly to carry out several primary objectives: restore and enhance degraded waters, protect and conserve unpolluted waters, eliminate water pollution, and create a network of riparian buffers and greenways. In short, its mission is to help protect water quality across the state. | |
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Guarding groundwater
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/24/2006 |
| For five years, state lawmakers sensibly have declined to pass a bill that would lower the standard for staving off the potential for polluted groundwater. That hasn't stopped a powerful manufacturers and chemical industries lobby from hoisting the legislation again onto the public agenda, gaining a hearing last week in the House Finance Committee. | |
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Feds OK demise of Dillsboro dam
- Asheville Citizen-Times (new window)
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7/20/2007 |
| DILLSBORO — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday granted Duke Energy permission to remove the historic Dillsboro dam. | |
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Sediment makes Crabtree Creek run milky white
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/2/2007 |
| Douglas Rader went for a Saturday bike ride just before noon near his Oak Park neighborhood. He stopped short when he saw the color of Crabtree Creek. | |
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Well safety pumped up
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/19/2006 |
| State legislators voted Tuesday to require counties to monitor the construction of wells at private homes and small businesses, another in a series of reforms to protect drinking water. | |
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Agreement on sewers to get public airing
- Star News (new window)
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7/17/2007 |
| The months-long negotiations between Wilmington officials and state environmental regulators and their plans to fix the Port City's sewer woes will soon receive a dose of public scrutiny. | |
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Cleaning up Jordan Lake
- The Chapel Hill News (new window)
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7/15/2007 |
| Jordan Lake, in addition to being an important habitat for wildlife (including a breeding population of bald eagles) and a recreation area for people throughout the Triangle, provides drinking water for communities south and east of Orange County, including Durham, Cary, Apex and Chatham County. | |
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Sewer overflows draw fines for Union
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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7/14/2007 |
| Union County has been fined $45,000 for overflows at its biggest sewer plant in November, December and January, the N.C. Division of Water Quality said Friday. | |
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Jordan water rules debated
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/13/2007 |
| High pH levels, a percolating surface and a necessity to meet federal Clean Water standards all were factors in Thursday night's public hearing about preserving Jordan Lake. | |
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City leads watershed protection effort
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/13/2007 |
| RALEIGH - More than two years after Raleigh conceived of the idea, a plan to protect the Falls Lake watershed and the rest of the Upper Neuse Basin is picking up steam. | |
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