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  • Big crowd turns out for environmental justice film

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 18, 2022

    A film about industrial hog facilities’ impact on eastern North Carolinians’ health and wellbeing drew a large crowd last Saturday. Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill…


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  • Sound Rivers joins SELC in opposing NC’s Rules Review Commission

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 18, 2022

    Sound Rivers joined with the Southern Environmental Law Center and nine other environmental nonprofits to file an amicus brief supporting North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s challenge to the newly…


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  • Volunteer Spotlight: Mira and Meredith Loughlin

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 11, 2022

    We can’t do what we do without our wonderful volunteers! Meet Mira and Meredith Loughlin, who live in Washington and have been Swim Guide sampling for four years (making…


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  • PSA: What’s Behind Those Algal Blooms …

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 11, 2022

    Want to know why the river/creek/pond, etc. sometimes turns bright green? Ever wondered why there are so many dead fish on the river? Find out in this short feature…


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  • Taking the trash out at Falls Lake

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 4, 2022

    When it comes to citizens taking matters into their own hands, we applaud a group of Falls Lake fans who took the…


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  • SPLASH FOR TRASH: another success!

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 4, 2022

    Greenville (noon) Rotary’s annual Splash for Trash, a clean-up of the Tar River, was another success this year. Sound Rivers’ Executive Director Heather Deck and water-quality intern Maddie Garrison…


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  • Volunteer Spotlight: Caroline Phelan

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 4, 2022

    Meet Caroline, a Sound Rivers’ volunteer who lives in Cary! Find out why she loves the Neuse River and volunteers for Swim Guide every summer. Thank you for being…


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  • Jack’s Creek Trash Trout nets a lot of trash

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 21, 2022

    Trash Trout-ers were at it again this…


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  • RIVERKEEPER OR ROCK STAR? You decide…

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 21, 2022

    Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop met with members of the Youth Conservation Corps group at Walnut Creek wetlands center this week to…


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  • Camp Greenfeet chips in for Trash Trout clean-out!

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 21, 2022

    Sound Rivers’ Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop and Staff Scientist Katy Hunt took the campers of Camp Greenfeet on an educational tour of…


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  • Volunteer Spotlight: Mike Sagaser

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 21, 2022

    Have…


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  • NCDEQ confirms presence of cyanobacteria at popular kayaking spot

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 13, 2022

    North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has confirmed that the organisms found at Robertson Millpond last week are cyanobacteria, which can produce…


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  • Riverkeeper spotlight: WKA organizer gets Neuse tour

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 13, 2022

    Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell and First Mate Miller took WKA organizer Patience Burke on a kayak tour…


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  • It’s law: you can’t just cut down waterfront trees

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 13, 2022

    This week, the Town of Washington Park, just east of Washington, reported to North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality and the…


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  • Win: Durham planning board nixes huge development

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 13, 2022

    The Durham City-County Planning Commission unanimously shot down a request to rezone land for…


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Our Mission

To monitor and protect the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico River watersheds covering nearly one quarter of North Carolina, and to preserve the health and beauty of the river basin through environmental justice.

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New Bern Office | 252 637-7972
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