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Tag Archives: swim guide
  • We’re Seeking Swim Guide Volunteers!

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 19, 2022

    We’re in the fifth year of Swim Guide, our weekly recreational water-quality testing program that lets everyone know where it’s safe to…


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  • COMING SOON! We’re launching a 5th season of Swim Guide!

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 12, 2022

    Preparation for a fifth…


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  • Swim Guide Sampling for Volunteers

    Posted by Heather Deck on April 19, 2022

    Sound Rivers Environmental Projects Director Clay Barber walks you through Swim Guide sampling from start to finish in this short video! Want to volunteer to sample? Email Clay at…


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  • “Is It Safe to Swim?” 2021 report

    Posted by Heather Deck on March 18, 2022

    Your Riverkeepers work hard to make sure it is safe to swim in our state’s waters. Every summer, we work with Riverkeepers across the state to evaluate E. coli…


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  • Lab RATS get a water-quality education

    Posted by Heather Deck on March 10, 2022

    Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell visited the North Carolina Museum of…


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  • Summer Swim Guide interns sought

    Posted by Heather Deck on February 10, 2022

    Sound Rivers is in search of a few good interns for this summer’s Swim Guide program. “We’re looking for somebody who’s interested in working with people, exploring nature and improving…


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  • Oakwood School 4th graders get Swim Guide education

    Posted by Heather Deck on January 20, 2022

    Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell introduced some fourth graders to Swim Guide and how to find out if your water is yucky. Jill was…


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  • Riverkeeper, environmental projects coordinator to take part in grand opening of new Greenville museum

    Posted by Heather Deck on September 16, 2021

    The…


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  • 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…


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  • Thank you to our Swim Guide volunteers!

    Posted by Heather Deck on September 9, 2021

    We want to give a huge “THANK YOU!“ to the sponsors and many…


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  • Volunteer Spotlight: Mac Lord

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 18, 2021

    Mac Lord is a junior, double majoring in engineering and political science at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. This summer was his first experience volunteering with Sound Rivers’ Swim Guide….


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  • Sound Rivers says goodbye to summer interns!

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 18, 2021

    This summer Sound Rivers welcomed aboard three new water-quality interns: Will Shingleton, a senior majoring in Environmental Health at East Carolina University; Leah Tilson, a senior double-majoring in Environmental…


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  • Volunteer Spotlight: Bob Hudkins

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 29, 2021

    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: Nathalie Uriarte-Ayala takes STEM campers sampling

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 15, 2021

    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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  • Riverkeeper, intern talk Swim Guide with WITN

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 28, 2021

    Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Katy Hunt explains how the florescence found in an IDEXX tray points to the…


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