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We’re Seeking Swim Guide Volunteers!
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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Swim Guide Sampling for Volunteers
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
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
Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Jill Howell visited the North Carolina Museum of…
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Summer Swim Guide interns sought
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
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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Swim Guide sampling bottles to find new life — as art
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!
We want to give a huge “THANK YOU!“ to the sponsors and many…
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Volunteer Spotlight: Mac Lord
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!
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
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
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
Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Katy Hunt explains how the florescence found in an IDEXX tray points to the…
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