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Northern Nash stormwater update
Environmental, Sound Rivers, Stormwater, Stormwater Restoration Projects, Tar-Pamlico Watershed, Water Quality
Posted on January 30th, 2025
A newly planted native grass appears to be thriving in its rain-garden home at Northern Nash High School.
Sound Rivers Program Director Clay Barber paid a site visit to Northern Nash High School this week to check on some newly constructed stormwater projects.
Two rain gardens and a reconstructed bioswale were doing the job of keeping stormwater (from last week’s winter storm’s snow and rain) contained and moving in the right direction — to places were it can pool without flooding walkways and parking lots and soak into the ground slowly.

The projects are part of Sound Rivers’ Campus Stormwater Program, in which Sound Rivers partners with schools across the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico watersheds to study campuses’ stormwater issues, make a plan to improved them, then construct a variety of measures from rainwater harvesting cisterns to constructed wetlands. Recent projects at Northern Nash and Southern Nash high schools were funded by Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant grant, with more Nash County Public Schools projects on the way.
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