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TAKE ACTION!Lick Creek needs our help! The Durham watershed is being inundated with runoff from the MANY developments currently being built (there are more than a dozen right now). Tell Durham City Council to put a pause on approving new developments until the get protections for Lick Creek in
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Scoping out stormwater at Rocky Mount High School
Sound Rivers’ Program Director Clay Barber made a visit to Rocky Mount High School this week, scoping out future stormwater control measures on campus. Along for the tour led by RMHS custodian Quinton Lee were Kris Bass Engineering ecological engineers Carmen Tormey and Simon Gregg. “Carmen and Simon were looking
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Neuse Riverkeeper attends West Coast conference
Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop was on the West Coast over the weekend, representing Sound Rivers and North Carolina Riverkeepers at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference. The four-day conference was held in Eugene, Oregon, and was held in person for the first time since the pandemic. “The conference was on
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DEQ backs up Sound Rivers’ Lick Creek data
Data from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality backs up what Sound Rivers’ Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop already knew: Lick Creek has a sedimentation problem. “DEQ has gone out to the sites that we have visited in the Lick Creek watershed and have their own results of sampling for
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New staff members have big field week
Sound Rivers’ new staff members were in and on the water this week, as Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell introduced them to field work. On Monday, Water-Quality Specialist Taylor Register and Volunteer Coordinator Emily Fritz joined Jill and Sound Rivers’ Program Director Clay Barber at the New Bern Trash Trout on
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Citizen science program needs your help observing the weather!
Have you ever wondered how much rain fell during a recent thunderstorm? How about snowfall during a winter storm? If so, an important volunteer weather observing program needs your help! The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow network, or CoCoRaHS, is looking for new volunteers across North Carolina. The grassroots effort is
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