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Action Alert: Don’t let the state budget strip protections for our wetlands and rivers!
Click here to tell your state Representatives: don’t let the state budget strip protections for our wetlands and rivers! This week the North Carolina House of Representatives…
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Volunteer Spotlight: Roy Carlton
Roy Carlton has been volunteering to do weekly water sampling for Swim Guide since Sound Rivers became a part…
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Is it The Blob? No, it’s a bryozoan colony
This bryozoan colony was spotted this week in Barton Creek, at the southern end of Falls Lake, north…
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Lower Neuse Riverkeeper eyes wastewater issues on Broad Creek
Your Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Katy Hunt spent Thursday taking water samples to test for E. coli at Broad Creek (off the Neuse…
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‘Splash for Trash’ makes a big splash on the Tar
Last Saturday, clean-water warriors gathered at Town Common in Greenville and took to the Tar for the third-annual Splash for Trash. Hosted by Greenville Noon Rotary, and partnered by Sound…
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A Festival of Creation spotlights environmentalism
Jay LaNunziata, Director of Christian Formation at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville, and Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell…
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Volunteer Spotlight: Bob Hudkins
Bob Hudkins has been volunteering with Sound Rivers for 25 years, and this is his first year as a Swim Guide water-sampling…
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Intern spotlight: Will presents “Cool Animals On Our Rivers and How We Protect Them!”
Water-quality intern Will Shingleton wowed his audience Wednesday with “Cool Animals On Our Rivers and How We Protect Them!,” a presentation about…
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Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Katy Hunt talks DNA testing of waters
Sound Rivers’ Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Katy Hunt weighed in on DNA testing and how it could change the pollution-sourcing game in…
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Riverkeepers weigh in on Triennial Review, water-quality standards
The Clean Water Act requires states to review their water quality standards and classifications every three years and make any necessary modifications to ensure the protection of our waters….
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Call for 40th-Anniversary Art: Win $500 for your digital design!
Help us celebrate our 40th anniversary year with a unique digital design commemorating our waterways! Three semi-finalists will receive $100, and a finalist will receive $500 for the design…
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Splash for Trash cleanup set for July 31
Sound Rivers is partnering again with the Greenville Noon Rotary Club for the 3rd-annual “Splash for Trash.” This Tar River cleanup is…
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Intern spotlight: Nathalie Uriarte-Ayala takes STEM campers sampling
Sound Rivers’ Lower Neuse water-quality intern Nathalie Uriarte-Ayala paid a special visit to A Time For Science this week to teach young STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) campers…
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Elsa rainfall totals, flood forecasts
Tropical Storm Elsa released plenty of rain over central North Carolina today; less so for the eastern region. The National Hurricane Center…
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We need your best swim shots!
It’s summertime and it’s time to head to your favorite swimming hole! We need your help as advocates to protect those waters…
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