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Intern Check-In: What’s William been up to?
What’s William been up to? A lot. Sound Rivers’ intern William Wallace has been out and about on both the Neuse and the Tar-Pamlico over the past week. Last Friday, William spent the day scouting out potential Trash Trout locations off the Tar River near Greenville. “Having seen how much trash can be collected by […]
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Turbidity levels low for Lick Creek, except…
Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop was back out in Lick Creek this week, taking turbidity samples. She’s been doing this every other week for the last several months, gathering data to determine just how much erosion issues and the resulting sedimentation from the many adjacent construction sites are impacting water quality and aquatic life. Lick Creek […]
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“The Smell of Money” draws a crowd
Turnout was great for ECU Sustainability’s screening this week of the environmental justice film “The Smell of Money,” at East Carolina University. “The film is heavy and forces the audience to reckon with the burdens placed on the communities living next to industrial hog operations in eastern North Carolina,” said Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell. “I […]
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Take Action: Thank legislators for funding abandoned boat program!
Thank legislators in the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico watersheds for funding the program here! Usually, we’re asking our state legislators to do something. Rarely do we reach out just to thank them for their work. But we are grateful for a few who worked hard to secure funding for the Abandoned and Derelict Vessels program. We’ve […]
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Black History Month: celebrating the IBP slaughterhouse win
In celebration of Black History Month, Sound Rivers is sharing weekly opportunities throughout February to learn more about the fight for environmental justice and diversity inherent in environmentalism. This week, we’re highlighting a fight for environmental justice nearly three decades ago, when a community on the Tar River drew a line at a hog slaughterhouse […]
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Neuse Riverkeeper speaks to Raleigh Garden Club
Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop was invited to the J.C. Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh this week to talk to the Raleigh Garden Club about Sound Rivers’ work, the Neuse River and the many issues it faces. “It was lovely, I love the garden club women — they’re wonderful. We talked for forever,” Sam said. “They asked […]
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Clean-out, then clean up for Jack’s Creek
A small army of Washington volunteers are keeping Jack’s Creek clean. On Wednesday, Sound Rivers volunteers Bill and Sara Hanafin, Sound Rivers’ board member Betsy Hester, Betty Eschenbach, Karl Crozier, Christina Marshen, Amanda Laughlin, Dawn Dolson, Cathy Bell and Jeffrey Barker joined Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell at the Trash Trout off of Market Street in […]
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Heavy rains = lots of trash on Little Rock Creek
The Raleigh Trash Trout on Little Rock Creek got a fourth clean-out this week, and the recent storms did not disappoint in filling the litter trap up. “There was lots of trash this time around, after the big rains — tons of plastic bottles and Styrofoam containers,” said Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop. Finds of particular […]
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NCDEQ hits seafood company with $21.5K fine
An Oriental, NC, fishing company has been hit with more than $21,000 in fines by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. In February 2022, Oriental police, NCDEQ’s Division of Water Resources and the Division of Air Quality responded to a complaint that maintenance crews were grinding paint from the hull of the fishing trawler […]
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SELC joins Lick Creek protection effort
Read SELC’s letter to Durham city and county officials here. The Southern Environmental Law Center is moving on Lick Creek, an impaired waterway being put at further risk by rampant development in Durham. Part of the Neuse River watershed, Lick Creek is a tributary of Falls Lake, a major source of drinking water for the […]
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Black History Month: Riverkeeper joins environmental justice panel discussion at doc screening
Watch the trailer to “The Smell of Money” below! In celebration of Black History Month, Sound Rivers is sharing weekly opportunities throughout February to learn more about the fight for environmental justice and diversity inherent in environmentalism. This week, we’re highlighting a film that shines a spotlight on an ongoing environmental justice battle in eastern […]
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Scouting Trash Trout #4
Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop and Sound Rivers’ Executive Director Heather Deck made a trip to Kinston this week to go scouting for a fourth Trash Trout location. The two met up with Mother Earth Brewing Executive Vice President Matthew Hart and Lenoir Community College Professor Maria Messner to do a field tour of Adkin Branch […]
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In search of the threatened Neuse River Waterdog
Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop and Sound Rivers intern William Wallace joined field researchers this week to document the presence (or absence) of the threatened Neuse River Waterdogs at select locations in the watershed. As it turns out, they ran across eight Neuse River Waterdogs during Thursday’s outing. “I pulled up one single trap with five […]
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Riverkeeper Reports: Heavy metal, turbidity testing on the Upper Neuse
Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop was in the field this week, testing in places where sediment is inundating waterways after a rain. She and intern William Wallace headed out to Lick Creek in Durham, an already impaired creek further threatened by sediment runoff from land cleared to make way for many developments currently under construction. At […]
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Stormwater projects commence at Wayne Community College
Wayne Community College is getting a stormwater makeover, thanks to Sound Rivers’ Program Director Clay Barber and a 2020 Environmental Enhancement Grant. Clay’s been eyeing the bio-swale project since 2019, and this week set the project in motion, meeting with Simon Greg, an engineer with Kris Bass engineering and Gabe Adams, project manager for Backwater […]
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