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Hurricane Irma
Our team at Sound Rivers is ready and prepared to provide you with important information about river levels and potential contamination / spill concerns if Hurricane Irma impacts North…
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Breaking News: Industry backs away from Garbage Juice technology
Breaking News Yesterday, Republic Services, a leading waste management industry, issued a public statement and pulled its support for waste aerosolization technology. Additionally,…
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Riverkeepers ask North Carolina to Deny Atlantic Coast Pipeline Permit
Credit Wilson Times: At a public hearing on a water quality certification application for the Atlantic Coast…
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Action Alert: Sustain Governor Cooper’s Veto and Stop Eminent Domain to Oil Companies
This week, Governor Cooper vetoed Senate Bill 16. Senate Bill 16 was passed by the legislature during the early…
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Tell NC to reject the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
We need to act fast! The proposed 600-mile fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is on its way to being built – unless we all work together to stop this…
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Salty Pamlico provides home for sea creatures
Local reports of jellyfish flooded in after the…
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Atlantic Coast Pipeline Public Hearings on State Water Quality Permit
The North Carolina Division of Water Quality announced this month they will be holding two public hearings regarding the 401 Water Quality…
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Landscaping for Water Quality: How to Make a Backyard Rain Garden
Last night Sound Rivers was honored to be a guest at Tryon Palace’s “Palace Pours” event, where we spoke about the Palace’s wonderful wetlands project outside the History Center….
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Sound Rivers’ Summer 2017 “Currents” Is Here!
Our quarterly newsletter, Currents, is out now! Read about safe swimming, the invisible world of estuaries, a recap of our…
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Proposed Industrial Discharge to Upper Tar River
It’s been a year since your Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper announced that Novozymes North America, an industrial corporation located in Franklin County, had applied…
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Sound Rivers To Begin New Grant Project
Earlier this year, Sound Rivers partnered with several organizations on an application for North Carolina 205(j) Water Quality Management Planning Grants. We worked with the Mideast Commission Council of…
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Fishing for Facts – 6/29/2017
Fishing for Facts – June 29, 2017 Final days push….bad legislation moving fast. The word on the…
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Coal Ash May Cost Customers
Citizen action is needed to stop a provision that is likely to increase costs and potentially delay clean-up of Duke…
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Safe Water: A Mom’s Quest for Safe Fun On Our Waterways
By Heather Deck, Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper I have always enjoyed swimming in lakes, rivers and streams and have done so since my youth during…
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