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ICYMI: Tell Me About It Tuesdays with Amin Davis
If you missed this week’s Tell Me About It Tuesdays, you can watch it here! Join environmental scientist Amin Davis for this presentation about Partners for Environmental Justice’s work advocating for environmental justice in southeast Raleigh since the mid-1990s. It’s a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the impact (lack of and creation of) green stormwater infrastructure […]
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RIVERKEEPER SPOTLIGHT: Avian Flu
Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell and Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop spent Wednesday in the field this week, flying over poultry facilities with confirmed cases of avian flu. “Since March 28, there have been nine facilities with confirmed cases in North Carolina, all of which are in Johnston and Wayne counties,” Jill said. “We saw what appeared to […]
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Microplastics and the purpose of Trash Trouts
Sound Rivers has embarked on a two-year-long microplastics monitoring project, part of a statewide initiative to understand what happens to plastics when they get into our waterways — how they break down, how much microplastic is in local waters and what we can do about it. Along with 12 other Riverkeepers, your Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill […]
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VIDEO ANIMATION: An introduction to biogas
It’s not too late to let North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality know that we need more protections for our waterways and our communities. Watch the animation below for a brief introduction to the biogas issue. You can speak up at a virtual public hearing to be held April 21 (see details below) or send […]
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Riverkeepers speak out at biogas permit public hearing
Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell and Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop traveled to Kenansville this week to speak out about biogas at a North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality public hearing. DEQ is trying to figure out what goes into the permit for the swine industry’s facilities installing biogas technology. Sound Rivers is making sure they know […]
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SPOTLIGHT: Avian flu and the poultry industry’s lack of transparency
The poultry industry is growing and largely unregulated, which makes it nearly impossible to understand the environmental impact it’s having on our waterways and communities. This is made even more clear when emergencies, such as the current avian flu outbreak, happen. Last week, we shared an article in the Sound Rivers eNews highlighting one industrial […]
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Sound Rivers welcomes new Neuse Riverkeeper
Environmental advocate. Organizer. Coalition builder. Conservation and climate activist. Samantha Krop brings a host of skills to her new role as Sound Rivers’ Neuse Riverkeeper. Sam comes to Sound Rivers from the Pacific Northwest, where she led campaigns to stop the clearcutting of forests, worked to oppose new, destructive fossil fuel proposals and fought for […]
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VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT: Christina Marshen
Sound Rivers’ volunteer Christina Marshen joined fellow Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of New Bern members for a recent cleanup at the mile-long Leander Morgan Park along the Neuse River in New Bern. Christina is our featured volunteer in our Spring 2022 newsletter, Currents, which hit mailboxes this week!
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‘Boat Days’ ensure quick response
Spring is here, and so are “boat days” on the Tar-Pamlico and Neuse rivers! This week Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell and Sound Rivers’ Environmental Projects Coordinator Clay Barber got out on the Tar River to make sure all was running well on the Riverkeeper’s Grady White. Sound Rivers’ boats need to be in good working […]
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Riverkeeper Spotlight: Care of Creation
Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell paid a visit to St. James Episcopal Church in Belhaven last week as part of the church’s Care of Creation covenant, “a commitment to practice loving formation, liberating advocacy and life-giving conversation as individuals, congregations, ministries and dioceses.” Invited for dinner and the program, Jill spoke about her work as Riverkeeper […]
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Women’s History Month Spotlight: Vivian Lucas
By Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell For anyone who has ever been to the Franklinton Center at Bricks, it’s likely you were greeted with a “Welcome home!” from Vivian Lucas. I’ve only met Vivian in person a handful of times, but she is the type of person you feel as though you have known forever. Her […]
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Sound Rivers’ wades in with Publix clean-up
Sound Rivers’ field technician Will Shingleton hosted New Bern Publix employees for a riverside clean-up this week. Ten volunteers signed up for the annual project, sweeping the banks of Lawson Creek Park for trash. The results: 11 large bags of trash and nine tires, fished from the woods and creek. Will said the Publix volunteers […]
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Riverkeeper, field technician take to the skies
Sound Rivers’ field technician Will Shingleton got a lesson in aerial surveillance of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) this week with Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell. This week’s flight was over a portion of the Neuse River basin from Contentnea Creek near Hookerton out to New Bern. “We use aerial surveillance to be able to better […]
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Port Terminal kayak launch now open for launching!
A new kayak launch is now available to ease paddlers’ way into the Tar River. The ADA-accessible kayak launch at the Port Terminal boat launch in Greenville was completed just in time for warmer weather. “It’s coming up on peak paddle and boating season, and Port Terminal is a notoriously busy boat ramp for boat […]
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ACTION ALERT: Biogas draft permit needs to protect people, environment
The biogas plans proposed in North Carolina do not fix the existing waste management problems and will make them worse by cementing in place an outdated, harmful system. It’s public comment time — and your time to tell North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to put people before pollution. Find out more about the issue, […]
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