• Join Us
  • Donate
  • Report A Problem
  • Swim Guide
  • Currents Archive

Logo Logo

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Overview
    • Team
    • Partners
  • Our Rivers
    • Natural Setting
    • Watershed Issues
    • Recreation
  • Our Work
    • Education
    • Protection
    • Restoration
  • Take Action
  • News
  • Contact
    Home > News > pollution

Blog

Tag Archives: pollution
  • Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper: Legislators must seal the deal on flood prevention, mitigation

    Posted by Heather Deck on September 16, 2021

    This week in 2018, a category 1…


    Continue reading
  • Swim Guide sampling bottles to find new life — as art

    Posted by Heather Deck on September 16, 2021

    Not all facilities can easily recycle some kinds of plastic, and that’s how Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell found a place to repurpose…


    Continue reading
  • Join our team! We’re looking for a Communications Director

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 31, 2020

    Job Posting Closed: We are no longer accepting applications We’re hiring for the position of Communications Director. Sound Rivers has a long tradition of clean water advocacy, protecting…


    Continue reading
  • Landfill Concerns Prompt Riverkeeper Investigation

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 27, 2020

    A few weeks ago, concerned residents of Kittrell, North Carolina…


    Continue reading
  • NC Attorney General Funds Sound Rivers Campus Stormwater Program

    Posted by Heather Deck on March 19, 2020

    In a press…


    Continue reading
  • Sound Rivers joins lawsuit over loss of clean water protections

    Posted by Heather Deck on February 18, 2020

    Conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Trump administration today for eliminating longstanding Clean Water Act protections for the nation’s waters, including approximately half of all…


    Continue reading
  • EPA Announces rule that attacks clean water protections

    Posted by Heather Deck on January 23, 2020

    Despite opposition from thousands of North Carolina residents, and strong  comments opposing the weakening changes by NC Attorney General…


    Continue reading
  • NC Settlement Results in Largest Coal Ash Cleanup in America

    Posted by Heather Deck on January 3, 2020

    Upper Neuse Riverkeeper, Matthew Starr, takes a water sample near the HF Lee facility in Goldsboro following Hurricane…


    Continue reading
  • A Riverkeeper’s Dedication: Protecting the Environment In and Out of the River

    Posted by Heather Deck on December 30, 2019

    By S. Wayne Miles, P.E., Stormwater Program Manager for the City of Raleigh Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper with Sound Rivers,…


    Continue reading
  • Updates on Impacts from Hurricane Dorian

    Posted by Heather Deck on September 6, 2019

    12PM September 6, 2019 Update Hurricane Dorian is finally moving away from the North Carolina coast. Major impacts occurred this morning on Ocracoke from Pamlico Sound side storm surge.  Overall,…


    Continue reading
  • Sound Rivers and partners reach groundbreaking settlement with NCDOT

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 22, 2019

    This week Sound Rivers reached a momentous settlement with the North Carolina Department of Transportation over their proposed 540 expansion in Wake County. As a result of this settlement,…


    Continue reading
  • Sound Rivers’ Campus Stormwater Program Goes to Craven Summit

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 22, 2019

    by Katy Hunt, Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Sound Rivers recently led a Stormwater workshop for Craven County teachers at the 2019 Craven…


    Continue reading
  • Swim Guide Results in Upper Neuse Prompt Concerns

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on July 22, 2019

    Sound Rivers’ popular summer Swim Guide program has Raleigh-area residents and visitors concerned about their water quality, after several sites on the Upper Neuse had high levels of bacteria…


    Continue reading
  • Stormwater Project to Begin in Greenville

    Posted by Heather Deck on January 5, 2019

    Stormwater Improvement Project Underway at Jaycee Park Greenville, NC, January 4, 2019- Work will begin Monday, January 7, 2018 to begin improvements on a failed stormwater detention pond at Jaycee…


    Continue reading
  • Hurricane Florence Exposes Problems with Wastewater Infrastructure

    Posted by Heather Deck on December 26, 2018

    By Forrest English Aerial image of the City of Grifton’s Wastewater Treatment Plant surrounded by flood waters (Photo:…


    Continue reading
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

'A SOUND RIVER' PREMIERES

Sound River" — Sound Rivers' 40th-anniversary documentary — premiered at a live, virtual event on Nov. 30. This exciting short film about Sound Rivers' history and history of activism, as told through the voices of our founders and partners, those fighting for clean water and the next generations of environmental advocacy, will be available soon for group screenings. Find out more here!

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.

Waterkeeperlogo  waterkeepers_carolina_logoearthshare_NC

Contact Sound Rivers

Jill Howell
Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper
Samantha Krop
Neuse Riverkeeper

Our Locations

New Bern Office | 252 637-7972
Raleigh Office | 919 856-1180
Washington Office | 252 946-7211
Icon_mono_300x86

©2018 Sound Rivers. All Rights Reserved.