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West Craven stormwater project yields delicious results
The benefits of stormwater management are many, but at West Craven High School, the benefit is growth — of the vegetable variety. Through an Environmental Enhancement Grant, Sound Rivers and…
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Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper guides media on kayak cypress swamp tour
Your Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell spent last Thursday as river guide in an old-growth cypress swamp in Courtland, Virginia, for CNN reporters covering Dogwood Alliance’s work opposing the wood…
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Mason’s Landing kayak launch opens on Tranters Creek
The second of three kayak launches being…
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Riverkeeper, intern talk Swim Guide with WITN
Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Katy Hunt explains how the florescence found in an IDEXX tray points to the…
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Swim Guide launch this week!
Swim Guide returns with Memorial Day weekend and summer days ahead! Sound Rivers is launching a fourth year of the public service alerting…
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About Swim Guide: all you need to know for safe swimming this summer!
No one should ever have to swim in unsafe waters. But how can you tell if your local stream, river or lake is safe? Swim Guide…
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Adopt a Swim Guide site this summer!
Do you love the Summer Swim Guide Program that keeps you in the know about the quality of the water you’re swimming,…
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2014 NC law prevents transparency in water-quality investigation
An IDEXX tray maxes out with E. coli numbers in a water sample taken from a stream…
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2021 Swim Guide interns on the job!
Sound Rivers’ Swim Guide program is gearing up for its launch Memorial Day weekend with our interns arriving at our Washington, New Bern and Raleigh offices. After an intense…
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Riverkeeper: extremely elevated levels of E. Coli found in Lenoir Co. stream
The IDEXX tray showing the E. coli results of >2419.6 MPN from the sample taken at a…
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NC Senator: biogas provision “Lipstick on a pig”
Yesterday, Senate Bill 605 – North Carolina Farm Act of 2021 passed the N.C. Senate. We don’t see this as good news because the Farm Act includes a bad biogas…
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ICYMI: Tell Me About It Tuesdays, Sea Level Rise – watch it here!
If you missed the latest live installment of Tell Me About It Tuesdays, don’t worry! You can watch it here! Sound Rivers’ monthly virtual science series continued on May…
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Upper Neuse Riverkeeper in the Swim Guide spotlight
“… There’s hope, and not only hope, there’s also a path forward. A clean river is not something that is…
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ACTION ALERT: Support clean-water funding in North Carolina
North Carolina legislators have a chance to improve our state’s water quality. We’re asking you to take action to ask…
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